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# uniq
> Output the unique lines from the given input or file.
> Since it does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent, we need to sort them first.
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- Display each line once:
`sort {{file}} | uniq`
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- Display only unique lines:
`sort {{file}} | uniq -u`
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- Display only duplicate lines:
`sort {{file}} | uniq -d`
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- Display number of occurrences of each line along with that line:
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`sort {{file}} | uniq -c`
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- Display number of occurrences of each line, sorted by the most frequent:
`sort {{file}} | uniq -c | sort -nr`