uniq works on sorted files only. The man page suggests that it does
remowe consecutive duplicates, but the first sentence states that it
removes repeating lines from sorted files.
Then either your man page lies, or your vendor uses a uniq
implementation that's not confirming to the POSIX standard.
From the POSIX 1003.1 standard:
DESCRIPTION
The uniq utility shall read an input file comparing adjacent
lines, and write one copy of each input line on the output. The second
and succeeding copies of repeated adjacent input lines shall not be
written.
Repeated lines in the input shall not be detected if they are not adjacent.
Abigail
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