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uniq is a unix command-line tool that takes a text file and outputs all identical adjacent lines as one line.

It takes input in the format

uniq <file>

It's commonly sorted first, so that the duplicate lines are adjacent.

Flags

• -c = each line starts with a count of how many duplicates their were
• -d = only outputs lines that were duplicated
• -u = only outputs lines that were unique
• -i = ignore case differences
• -f = ignore certain fields
• -w = only compare n characters