Expand the capabilities of the uniq command

[n-t-eastham]

Purpose: to refactor the preexisting uniq command which reports or deletes repeated lines in a file.

current supported flags

• -c prints the count of the unique lines
• -w prints the unique words
• -wc prints the unique words and their counts

Goals:

• fix any hardcoded parameters
• utilize the sort command

add as many of these unimplemented flags

• -f: allow the user to ignore case (case-insensitive comparison for uniqueness).
• -u: print only unique lines or words without any counts.
• -s: sort the output alphabetically or numerically
• -r: severse the sorting order of the output.
• -t: output the total number of unique lines or words at the end.

[malensek]

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