[uniq - SUGGESTION] --check-fields option?

[Jeff Buckles]

To all,

One option that I would have dearly loved to have in 
the past is an option to compare only *leading* fields
or, ideally, a range of fields.  Traditional uniq only
allowed comparing trailing fields (cf. --skip-fields),
and gnu uniq now allows to ignore either leading or
trailing *chars* (--skip-chars, --check-chars).  However
there is no corresponding "--check-fields" switch.


Thanks for your time and effort to make these tools possible!



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        Jeff Buckles
        NEC Electronics Inc.
        Portland ASIC Design Center
        (503) 672-4523
        jeffb @ el.nec.com