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From: William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command line options and complexity
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 17:01:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <375CF120-7AB2-4D62-A295-07DDB30AF5CF@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2003060752280.64345@aneurin.horsfall.org>

My use for rev(1):

uniq(1)’s -f <n> ignores the first <n> fields of a line.  If you want it to ignore the last <n> fields:

rev | uniq -f <n> | rev

ches


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-05 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03 18:15 Jon Steinhart
2020-03-03 18:44 ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-04  4:11   ` Tyler Adams
2020-03-04  6:03     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-04  6:48       ` arnold
2020-03-04 21:17         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05  0:49         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2020-03-05 20:54           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 22:01             ` William Cheswick [this message]
2020-03-04 21:50   ` Random832
2020-03-04 23:19     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-05  6:12     ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-03-04 22:03   ` Random832
2020-03-04 23:25     ` Terry Jones
2020-03-10 23:03 ` Dan Stromberg
2020-03-11  3:18   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-11  4:02     ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-11 22:56     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-11 23:14       ` Dan Cross
2020-03-12  0:42         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12  0:53       ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-12  3:09         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12  3:34           ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-13  1:02             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12  5:38         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-12  6:48         ` Peter Jeremy
2020-03-12  7:37           ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-12  7:42             ` Warner Losh
2020-03-12 23:57           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12  5:22       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-12  5:35         ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-13  0:36         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-13 11:26           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14  2:13           ` Greg A. Woods
2020-03-14  4:31             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-04 14:06 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-04 16:17 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-04 17:25   ` Bakul Shah
2020-03-05  0:55   ` Rob Pike
2020-03-05  2:05   ` Kurt H Maier
2020-03-05  4:17     ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-03-05 14:53       ` Dan Cross
2020-03-05 21:50       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 21:56         ` Warner Losh
2020-03-08  5:26           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-08  5:32             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-08  9:30               ` Tyler Adams
     [not found]                 ` <CAC0cEp8eFRkkLTw88WVaKZoKy+qsrhuC8LkzmmsbqtdZgMf8eQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <CAEuQd1D7+dfap98AwPo2W41+06prrcVaAWk3Ve-ve0uQ0xBu3Q@mail.gmail.com>
2020-03-09 21:06                     ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-09 21:22                       ` Kurt H Maier
2020-03-11 17:41                         ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-11 21:29                           ` Warner Losh
2020-03-12  0:13                             ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-12  0:34                               ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-12 12:57                             ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-12 19:24                               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-08  9:51             ` Michael Kjörling
2020-03-05  4:57 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-05 22:17 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2020-03-10 16:15 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-10 17:38 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-10 17:44   ` Bakul Shah
2020-03-10 18:09     ` Dan Cross
2020-03-10 18:42 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-10 19:38 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-13 10:45 Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14  4:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-14 19:52   ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-14 20:25     ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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