docs/107578: uniq(1) should mention max line length
Jan Schaumann
jschauma at netmeister.org
Fri Jan 5 18:40:22 UTC 2007
>Number: 107578
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: uniq(1) should mention max line length
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 05 18:40:21 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jan Schaumann
>Release: n/a
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
uniq(1) uses LINE_MAX + 1, but this is not mentioned anywhere in the man page, causing one to wonder why uniq is not working as expected on input with longer lines.
>How-To-Repeat:
for i in `jot 4096`; do printf "a" >> file; done
echo >> file
for i in `jot 4096`; do printf "a" >> file; done
echo >> file
uniq file
man uniq
>Fix:
--- /tmp/uniq.1 Fri Jan 5 10:31:16 2007
+++ /tmp/uniq.1.old Fri Jan 5 10:31:41 2007
@@ -153,9 +153,3 @@
.Nm
command appeared in
.At v3 .
-.Sh BUGS
-The
-.Nm
-utilitiy limits lines to a maximum of LINE_MAX + 1 bytes in length
-(commonly 2048 + 1).
-It will not be able to filter out identical lines longer than that.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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