sbase/uniq.1
Hiltjo Posthuma a0998d0252 sbase: improve man pages and some warnings.
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From: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:42:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] improve man pages and some warnings.

Checking for warnings: mandoc -Tlint *.1

- Swap .St -p1003.1-2013 macro with text:
  mdoc does not support this macro and some texts were changed, like commit
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- Typo fixes:
  exeption -> exception.
- xargs.1: document -P extension.
- sed.1: remove use of .Pp of .Ss.
- Wrap lines to less than 80 characters and use a new sentence for each line.
- find.1: Xr reference C library functions.
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.Dd October 8, 2015
.Dt UNIQ 1
.Os sbase
.Sh NAME
.Nm uniq
.Nd report or filter out repeated lines in a file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl c
.Op Fl d | u
.Op Fl f Ar num
.Op Fl s Ar num
.Op Ar input Op Ar output
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
reads the
.Ar input
file and writes one copy of a line from each group of consecutive
duplicate lines to the
.Ar output
file.
If no
.Ar input
file is given
.Nm
reads from stdin.
If no
.Ar output
file is given
.Nm
writes to stdout.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c
Prefix each line with the number of consecutive occurrences in
.Ar input .
.It Fl d | Fl u
Print duplicate | unique lines only.
.It Fl f Ar num | Fl s Ar num
Ignore the first
.Ar num
fields | characters in each input line when doing comparisons.
.El
.Sh STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2013.