On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 14:10 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/17/20 5:32 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > [previous line repeated 4 times] > > uniq -c already does something like that, though it outputs "5" > instead of "4".
Right. I had considered that. Something like: $ cat /tmp/in | uniq -c | while read c line; do > echo $line > if [ $c -gt 1 ]; then > echo "Last line repeated $((c-1)) times" > fi > done But that eats leading whitespace on $line. > Not sure it's worth gussying up 'uniq' to provide exactly the > functionality > requested, as output reformatting is easy enough to do yourself using > awk or > Python or whatever. Right. But if I were going to pull out such a big hammer, I'd just again, eliminate uniq and do everything in awk or Python or whatever. Anyway, it was just a suggestion. Doesn't seem like it will go much of anywhere. That's fine. If it really itched me enough, I guess I'd just submit a patch. Cheers, b.
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