UNIQUE(8)

💖 UNIQUE(8) — like, the system manager's manual bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this one's unique from the john package, and she's here to clean up your wordlist situation. slay. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

unique — removes duplicates from a wordlist 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

unique output-file

like. that's it. one (1) argument. she's low maintenance, your honor. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this manual page documents the unique command briefly, and she's part of the john package, periodt. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because — and I cannot stress this enough — the original program literally does not have a manual page. not me documenting a whole tool out of the kindness of my heart 😭🫶

So like, john — better known as John the Ripper 👑 — is a tool to find weak passwords of users in a server. icon behaviour, honestly.

And the unique tool? She finds and removes duplicate entries from a wordlist (read from stdin), without changing the order. The way that matters is actually so real: it's important because it increases the performance of john when using the wordlist method. 🔥

so basically: stdin goes in, deduped wordlist goes out, order stays exactly as it was. no chaos. no reshuffling. just vibes. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• john(8)
• mailer(8)
• unafs(8)
• unshadow(8)

The programs are documented fully by John's documentation, which should be available in /usr/share/doc/john or other location, depending on your system. iykyk. 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

John the Ripper and mailer were written by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>. The complete list of contributors can be found in the CREDITS file in the documentation directory. give them their flowers, fr fr 🌸

okay bestie, that's the whole page, no notes. 🎀 this one came from john, dated June 03, 2004 — vintage but she still ate and left no crumbs. stay deduped, stay ordered, love u 💖✨🦋