Re: uniq: exit status not documented enough

[Paul Eggert]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

>        uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
> therefore if it fails to remove duplicate lines from a sorted file,
> then it will return nonzero

I installed this to help avoid the confusion:

2004-10-20  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * man/uniq.x: Change summary so that it doesn't imply that
        uniq writes to its input file.  Problem reported by
        Dan Jacobson.

Index: man/uniq.x
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RCS file: /fetish/cu/man/uniq.x,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -p -u -r1.2 uniq.x
--- man/uniq.x  2 Nov 1999 13:58:56 -0000       1.2
+++ man/uniq.x  20 Oct 2004 20:17:43 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 [NAME]
-uniq \- remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
+uniq \- report or omit repeated lines
 [DESCRIPTION]
 .\" Add any additional description here