Re: Bug in uniq?

[James Youngman]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:05:55PM -0500, Ian Sue Wing wrote:

> Yesterday I downloaded and installed a copy of CYGWIN. I am using
> the uniq utility to purge duplicate line entries from a large,
> tab-delimited file with several columns of data. (The file, which I
> have already run through sort, is included as a .bz2 attachment. It
> has about 60,000 lines.)

Yes, it is 168KiB long.  Please do not send vast attachements to
mailing lists, it generates useless strain on the mailing list servers
(think - you are generating 168KiB of traffic for every list member!)
and most people don't need to see the attachment.

If you have a large file which serves to illustrate a problem, put it
up on the web somewhere and put in your email a URL from which the
example can be retrieved.

Regards,
James Youngman.