Matt Keenan wrote: > > Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Matt Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 page_log > 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
