Package: coreutils
Version: 8.23-4
Severity: wishlist
Probably a request for upstream.
>From the manpage for uniq (reordered to highlight the missing symmetry):
-s, --skip-chars=N
avoid comparing the first N characters
-w, --check-chars=N
compare no more than N characters in lines
-f, --skip-fields=N
avoid comparing the first N fields
but no option to only compare the first N fields. Please add that feaure.
The system information below shows that I'm running stable, but it's the same
on unstable, but no matter what I do reportbug crashes (with an error similar
to what's in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849358) when I
run it in the docker container with unstable I used for checking it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
