Usage: uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]
Filter adjacent matching lines from INPUT (or standard input),
writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).

With no options, matching lines are merged to the first occurrence.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -c, --count           prefix lines by the number of occurrences
  -d, --repeated        only print duplicate lines
  -D, --all-repeated[=delimit-method]  print all duplicate lines
                        delimit-method={none(default),prepend,separate}
                        Delimiting is done with blank lines
  -f, --skip-fields=N   avoid comparing the first N fields
  -i, --ignore-case     ignore differences in case when comparing
  -s, --skip-chars=N    avoid comparing the first N characters
  -u, --unique          only print unique lines
  -z, --zero-terminated  end lines with 0 byte, not newline
  -w, --check-chars=N   compare no more than N characters in lines
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

A field is a run of blanks (usually spaces and/or TABs), then non-blank
characters.  Fields are skipped before chars.

Note: 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent.
You may want to sort the input first, or use `sort -u' without `uniq'.
Also, comparisons honor the rules specified by `LC_COLLATE'.

Report uniq bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'uniq invocation'