Re: uniq: missing option -W (original) (raw)

[Top][All Lists]

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: uniq: missing option -W / --check-fields=N

From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: uniq: missing option -W / --check-fields=N
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:08:52 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502)

Matt Keenan wrote:

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Matt Keenan <address@hidden> writes: > > > >> Paul Eggert has mentioned that upstream uniq has never had a -W >> flag. Would you be receptive to a patch? >> > > > I'm not sure. Does any distribution other than Debian-derived > distributions have it? More importantly, what's it used for and > useful for? >

The main purpose is so that checking can be done against fields as opposed to just characters (think of fields that have an inconsistent number of characters). The use I have for it is to get the final count for the number of pages for a given CUPS job from the CUPS pagelog file. Making a patch from the debian sources is not a difficult task and I can provide one if necessary.

It would be great if one could specify fields (keys) like one can for the sort utility.

Pádraig.