Understanding The Use of ‘uniq’ Command to Show File Details

A Linux Hosting India administrator use a number highly useful commands to execute the file listing processes. Most of the hosting professionals use ‘uniq’ command to perform specific file functions. Find below the syntax of this command.

• uniq: Used to print the file by removing duplicate adjacent lines.

Syntax: uniq filename

Ex: $ uniq file

• uniq –u filename –unique : Prints the only unique lines
• uniq –d filename –repeated : Prints the only duplicate lines
• uniq –c filename –count : Prints the number of times each line occurred