uniq not working

[Henry S. Thompson]

Andrey Repin writes:

> Greetings, Henry S. Thompson!
>
>> You may find the following bash function useful:
>
>> sus () 
>> { 
>>     sort "$@" | uniq -c | sort -k1nr,1
>> }
>
> Why not sort -u ?

Because then all the counts will be 1.

ht
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