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

uniq(1) used to have an option for checking only a certain number of fields. I have since noticed that some scripts I wrote some time ago have stopped working because the -W / --check-fields=N option has disappeared. Can it please be put back in?

It's still there in the latest stable version, 5.96: $ uniq --version | head -n1 uniq (GNU coreutils) 5.96 $ uniq --help | grep check -w, --check-chars=N compare no more than N characters in lines