# ripuniq: fast line deduplicator
functions similarly to `uniq`, with the main exception that it does not require its input to be sorted (and unlike `sort -u`, the order of the input lines will actually be preserved).

`ripuniq` only reads lines from stdin, so it should always be used with `< inputfile` or as part of a pipeline.

`ripuniq` has one command-line option, `-z`.  it changes the line seperator from `'\n'` to `'\0'`.

`ripuniq` is heavily optimized, up to 15x faster than `sort -u`.

## installation
static binaries for x86_64 linux systems available from [the releases page](https://codeberg.org/binarycat/ripuniq/releases).

for other platforms, just run `cargo install ripuniq`.  this will take a bit longer and result in a larger binary, but should work basically everywhere, since `ripuniq` does not have any system dependancies other than those needed by the rust runtime (which will already be installed as dependancies of `cargo`)