GNU bug report logs - #6949
Uniq command should allow total to be displayed

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Miles Duke" <Miles.Duke <at> erdas.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: "Miles Duke" <Miles.Duke <at> erdas.com>
To: <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Uniq command should allow total to be displayed
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:21:08 -0400

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This is not a bug, but a feature request.

 

'uniq --count' is an excellent tool for summarizing data, but it is
missing one useful feature - an overall total.

 

It's embarrassing to have to go to excel to bring the totals together.

 

I suggest a new -t (--total) option:

 

*         When combined with '--count', it reports the sum of the count
lines

*         Without the '--count', it reports the number of lines printed
by uniq

 

As a new parameter, it will not break any scripts that rely upon the
current output of uniq.

 

 

Miles Duke (Miles.Duke <at> erdas.com)

 


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From: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
To: Miles.Duke <at> erdas.com (Miles Duke)
Cc: 6949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6949: Uniq command should allow total to be displayed
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:04:37 -0500 (GMT+5)

Miles Duke writes:
> 
> 'uniq --count' is an excellent tool for summarizing data, but it is
> missing one useful feature - an overall total.

This might be a good idea...

> 
> It's embarrassing to have to go to excel to bring the totals together.

...but you can't think of any other tool that can add up a bunch of numbers?!
You're using dynamite to kill a mosquito. There must be a dozen basic
utilities that can do arithmetic. Like awk:

  ... | uniq -c | awk '{t+=$1}END{print t,"total"}1'

-- 
Alan Curry
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