docs/107578: [patch] uniq(1) should mention max line length

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Tue Jan 16 12:54:06 UTC 2007


On 2007-01-15 16:01, Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Synopsis: [patch] uniq(1) should mention max line length
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->patched
> > State-Changed-By: keramida
> > State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 15 23:26:03 UTC 2007
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > Nice catch.  I've committed a slightly shorter version of
> > the text, inspired from nl(1) and other utilities.
>
> Actually, you may wish to take a look at Christos Zoulas's change to
> NetBSD's uniq(1) to remove the restriction on line-length altogether:
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/uniq/uniq.c.diff?r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll keep the PR in patched state, and try to
merge the NetBSD uniq(1) changes with our version :-)




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