On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 05:51:19 +0000, JP wrote:
> I had a need to run uniq on an open stream. It doesn't seem to print
> the most recent line.
>
> $ lua -e 'print("a");print("b");print("c"); repeat until false' |uniq
> a
> b
>
> ^ should print the c as well, no?
Yes, but. 'uniq -c' can only print the 'c' line once it gets a different input
line
or EOF, and I'd bet that the code doesn't try to behave differently when run
without -c.
(Behaviour is different from GNU coreutils uniq; also:
netbsd$ uniq --help
uniq: uniq: No such file or directory
)
- Andreas
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"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
