Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!kpmartin 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 Lines: 6 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.