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From: kpmartin@watmath.UUCP (Kevin Martin)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: sort(1) -uf output inconsistent with manual page
Message-ID: <10883@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 21:54:05 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.10883
Posted: Sun Jan 13 21:54:05 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:23:56 EST
References: <826@ariel.UUCP> <281@enmasse.UUCP>
Reply-To: kpmartin@watmath.UUCP (Kevin Martin)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

>	Extreanous flags should not be added to utilites when there
>already exists a perfectly good utility to perform that function.
>	"sort -fu" caused some confusion.
>	the output from "sort -f | uniq" is self explanatory.
Of course, this only works if you want to sort and uniq by entire lines.
If only part of the line is the sort key, you're stuck with the -u flag.