nushell/docs/commands/uniq.md

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# uniq
Returns unique rows or values from a dataset.
## Examples
Given a file `test.csv`
```csv
first_name,last_name,rusty_at,type
Andrés,Robalino,10/11/2013,A
Andrés,Robalino,10/11/2013,A
Jonathan,Turner,10/12/2013,B
Yehuda,Katz,10/11/2013,A
```
```shell
> `open test.csv | uniq`
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━
# │ first_name │ last_name │ rusty_at │ type
───┼────────────┼───────────┼────────────┼──────
0 │ Andrés │ Robalino │ 10/11/2013 │ A
1 │ Jonathan │ Turner │ 10/12/2013 │ B
2 │ Yehuda │ Katz │ 10/11/2013 │ A
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━
```
```shell
> `open test.csv | get type | uniq`
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━
# │
───┼─────────
0 │ A
1 │ B
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━
```
### Counting
`--count` or `-c` is the flag to output a `count` column.
```shell
> `open test.csv | get type | uniq -c`
───┬───────┬───────
# │ value │ count
───┼───────┼───────
0 │ A │ 3
1 │ B │ 2
───┴───────┴───────
```