UniqApp.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.streaming;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Date;

/** A minimal Java implementation of /usr/bin/uniq
    Used to test the usage of external applications without adding
    platform-specific dependencies.
    Uniques lines and prepends a header on the line.
 */
public class UniqApp
{

  public UniqApp(String header)
  {
    this.header = header;
  }
  public void go() throws IOException
  {
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    String line;
    String prevLine = null;
    while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
      if (!line.equals(prevLine)) {
        System.out.println(header + line);
      }
      prevLine = line;
    }
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
  {
    String h = (args.length < 1) ? "" : args[0];
    UniqApp app = new UniqApp(h);
    app.go();
  }

  String header;
}