Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!enmasse!mike From: mike@enmasse.UUCP (Mike Schloss) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: sort(1) -uf output inconsistent with manual page Message-ID: <281@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 17:27:01 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.281 Posted: Sat Jan 12 17:27:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 09:06:33 EST References: <826@ariel.UUCP> Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 18 > CONCLUSION: > The output should always be in lower case. Changing the manual > page to indicate the problem will only serve to confuse the > situation. > WRONG CONCLUSION: 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. What you prbably want is : ... | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" | sort -f | uniq | ...