Dear all, I hope that someone can help me out with the next issue on a system running RedHat Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg).
When using the uniq command on the attached file Foo <<Foo>> the result is not as expected. It also gives different results depending on using it several times after eachother. I can supply some extra information about the kernel and the rpm version ( which includes the uniq command ) used. # type uniq uniq is /usr/bin/uniq # rpm -qf /usr/bin/uniq coreutils-5.2.1-31 # uname -a Linux tux06 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # rpm -qa | grep coreutil coreutils-5.2.1-31 My Environment settings are as follows. # env _=/bin/env SSH_CONNECTION=::ffff:144.44.217.242 1218 ::ffff:144.44.110.66 22 PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin SHELL=/bin/bash HOSTNAME=tux06 USER=root MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root HOME=/root OLDPWD=/root/scripts/bingo HISTSIZE=1000 PWD=/tmp SSH_CLIENT=::ffff:144.44.217.242 1218 22 LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s TERM=xterm INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc KDEDIR=/usr G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass LANG=en_US.UTF-8 QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3 SHLVL=1 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1 LOGNAME=root LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35: Should it be stripped of the mail the content of the file Foo is : # cat Foo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo When using "sort Foo | uniq -u" I get an unexpected result whick looks like - Beginning - # sort Foo | uniq -u ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo The result looks random when trying the same command several times after eachother. - Again - # sort Foo | uniq -u ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo The usage of sort -u does the job fine # sort -u Foo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig Strange result also appears when using "sort Foo | uniq -d" - Beginning - # sort Foo | uniq -d - Again - # sort Foo | uniq -d ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo Next shows the same strange result for just the uniq command - Beginning - # sort Foo | uniq ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo - Again - # sort Foo | uniq ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/carré.logo ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/doc/man-pages-da-0.1.1/læsmig ./usr/share/apps/kturtle/examples/fr_FR/enroulé.logo Perhaps it has something to do with the characters in the lines, because until now uniq worked fine with the exception of the above example. A file Foo2 contains the following lines Abc Def Abc Def Now uniq works fine even when you try it several times # sort Foo2 | uniq -d Abc Def # sort Foo2 | uniq -u PS: I've also tried the above commands on a Solaris 9 system with the same commands and the results are as one should expect. Hope to hear soon.
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