uniq is a Unix utility which, when fed a text file, outputs the file with adjacent identical lines collapsed to one. It is a kind of filter program. Typically it is used after sort. It can also output only the duplicate lines (with the -d option), or add the number of occurrences of each line (with the -c option).

An example: To see the list of lines in a file, sorted by the number of times each occurs:

sort file | uniq -c | sort -n

Using uniq like this is common when building pipelines in shell scripts.

Switches[link]

• -u Print only those lines which are not repeated (unique) in the input.
• -d Print only those lines which are repeated in the input.
• -c Generate an output report in default style except that each line is preceded by a count of the number of times it occurred. If this option is specified, the -u and -d options are ignored if either or both are also present.
• -i Ignore case differences when comparing lines
• -f Ignore a number of fields in a line
• -s Skips a number of characters in a line
• -w Specifies the number of characters to compare in lines, after any characters and fields have been skipped
• --help Displays a help message
• --version Displays version number on stdout and exits.

See also[link]

• List of Unix programs

External links[link]

• uniq's Linux manpage
• SourceForge UnxUtils – Port of several GNU utilities to Windows

Royston Drenthe

Drenthe in action with Real Madrid
Personal information
Full name	Royston Rickie Drenthe
Date of birth	(1987-04-08) 8 April 1987 (age 25)
Place of birth	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Winger / Full back
Club information
Current club	Real Madrid
Number	-
Youth career
1992–2000	Neptunus
2000–2003	Feyenoord
2003–2005	Excelsior
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005–2007	Feyenoord	29	(0)
2007–	Real Madrid	46	(2)
2010–2011	→ Hércules (loan)	17	(4)
2011–2012	→ Everton (loan)	21	(3)
National team‡
2006–2007	Netherlands U21	24	(7)
2008	Netherlands B	1	(0)
2010–	Netherlands	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of match played 9 April 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2010

Royston Rickie Drenthe (born 8 April 1987) is a Dutch footballer who plays for Real Madrid. Mainly a left winger, he can also operate as a left back.

Club career[link]

Youth[link]

Born in Rotterdam, Drenthe joined local side Feyenoord's youth system at the age of 13, playing mainly as a winger during his junior years. After disciplinary issues during a trip to Switzerland with the B side, coach Marcel Bout wanted him to leave the club, but everything was resolved after the intervention of Rob Baan, the director of football.

Bout hardly used Drenthe in his subsequent line-ups, and, at the end of the season, the 16-year old was named as one of eleven players whose future at the club was questionable. He eventually moved to Feyenoord feeder club SBV Excelsior.

Drenthe improved during the two years he played at Excelsior, with coach Marco van Lochem successfully playing him as left back. After impressing his former side's coaching staff, he was asked to rejoin the club, and accepted.

Feyenoord[link]

In the 2005–06 season, Drenthe reached Feyenoord's first team, managed by his former youth coach Henk Fräser, and had to compete for first-choice status with Mohammed Hammouti. After scoring three goals against AFC Ajax in the Otten Cup, a youth tournament organized by PSV Eindhoven, as a winger, he began training with the main squad, while still appearing for the reserves.

Drenthe with Feyenoord.

In the same week where he helped to a 5–1 win at Ajax with the second team, Drenthe was offered a professional contract at Feyenoord. Manager Erwin Koeman handed him his Eredivisie debut, against Vitesse at the Gelredome and the player finished the season with three matches.

In 2006–07, Feyenoord signed veteran Belgian Philippe Léonard, while Pascal Bosschaart was also still part of the squad. After the former suffered an injury and the latter was transferred to ADO Den Haag, Drenthe became first-choice as Feyenoord finished seventh in the league.

After winning at the European Under-21 Championship with the Netherlands, and following transfer speculation in the press,^[1] Feyenoord agreed to a €14 million bid by Real Madrid, after Drenthe decided to take his club to court if they did not want to let him go.^[2][3][4]

Real Madrid[link]

Drenthe was presented as a Real Madrid player on 13 August 2007, alongside compatriot Wesley Sneijder. He made his official debut as a midfielder, in the second leg of the season's Spanish Supercup against Sevilla FC, and scored the 1–1 equaliser from 40 yards out, with the ball hitting the crossbar and crossing the line; the Merengues, however, lost 3–5 at home and 3–6 on aggregate.

Drenthe played regularly for Real Madrid in his debut season, in both left-wing positions, but began appearing less after the development of Brazilian Marcelo, being inclusively dropped from the list of 18 by manager Bernd Schuster in several games: after being left out for the match against Valencia CF, he stormed out of the training ground. He finished the campaign with 18 league appearances (plus four in the season's UEFA Champions League), scoring his first league goal against Real Valladolid, in a 7–0 home routing on 10 February 2008.

Despite rumours of him leaving the club on loan, Drenthe featured in 15 of Real Madrid's first 18 games of the 2008–09 season. However, he also suffered from anxiety issues after being booed by the club's supporters during a 1–0 home win against Deportivo de La Coruña and did not feature for the club for a period, although manager Juande Ramos offered the player his support and insisted he would help him.^[5] The manager later revealed that the player asked not to be picked for the three games after the Deportivo fixture.^[6]

On 31 August 2010, after having appeared rarely in his third season, Drenthe was loaned to Hércules CF in a season-long move.^[7] He made his debut on 11 September, in a 2–0 away win against FC Barcelona.^[8] He scored his first goal for the club on 14 November, netting from a free kick against Real Sociedad, in a 2–1 home victory.^[9] His performances with the Alicante team were subsequently praised by the Spanish press.^[10] However, the player would soon fall out of favour with the club's board of directors and coaching staff after arriving one week after the winter break ended, citing a "loss of confidence in Hércules management", rather than what was previously perceived as "a protest over unpaid wages".^[11]

On 3 April 2011, in his second game after his suspension, Drenthe scored twice to help Hércules to its first away win since September, 3–1 against Real Sociedad.^[12] He ended the season with 15 starts in 1,299 minutes of action, with his team being finally relegated.

Everton[link]

On 31 August 2011, Drenthe joined Everton on a season-long loan deal.^[13] He made his Premier League debut as a second-half substitute in the 2–2 home draw against Aston Villa, on 10 September. Again from the bench, against Wigan Athletic, he scored in the 97th minute to round off a 3–1 home victory.^[14][15]

Drenthe made his first start for Everton on 21 September 2011, in a Football League Cup game against West Bromwich Albion, assisting the winning goal for Phil Neville in the 13th minute of extra time (2–1 home win).^[16] On his full league debut, at Fulham on 23 October, he found the net just three minutes into the game, in an eventual 3–1 win.^[17]

On 21 December 2011, after three weeks out of the game due to an ankle injury, Drenthe assisted Leon Osman for the game's only goal at home against Swansea City.^[18] On 18 February of the following year, against Blackpool for the season's FA Cup, he scored after just 49 seconds in a 2–0 home success.^[19] Drenthe started in the next game for Everton, scoring a powerful low drive from 20 yards out for the first goal of the 1–1 away draw against Queens Park Rangers.^[20]

In March, Drenthe was given a leave of absence on compassionate grounds and upon returning he reported late for training. This resulted in manager David Moyes omitting the player from Everton's FA Cup semi-final squad and he was also told to stay away from the club.^[21]

In May, Drenthe accused FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi of being racist, saying that Messi repeatedly calling him "negro" after an on-field altercation. Drenthe locked horns with Messi a number of times during his spells at Real Madrid and Hércules CF from 2007-2011.^[22]

International career[link]

After his first full season at Feyenoord, Drenthe was called by Dutch under-21 coach Foppe de Haan to be part of his squad for the 2007 UEFA European Championship, which was held in the Netherlands.

He was one of the most important players in the second consecutive title of the competition for the Jong Oranje, being chosen by UEFA as player of the tournament.^[23] The following year, he represented the nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[24]

On 14 November 2010, Drenthe was selected for the first time for the Dutch senior team, as coach Bert van Marwijk picked him as a late replacement for injured Urby Emanuelson. Three days later, he made his debut, coming on as a second half substitute in the 1–0 friendly win with Turkey.

Club statistics[link]

As of match played 9 April 2012.

Honours[link]

Club[link]

• Real Madrid:
  • La Liga: 2007–08
  • Supercopa de España: 2008; Runner-up 2007

Country[link]

• UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship: 2007

Individual[link]

• UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship: Golden player 2007

Personal[link]

Drenthe's younger brother, Giovanni, is also a footballer. The striker opted to represent Suriname internationally.^[25]

He dated Spanish Playboy model Malena Gracia.^[26]

Drenthe recorded a rap song with his friend U-Niq, called "Tak Takie".^[27]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Real Madrid official profile
• BDFutbol profile
• Royston Drenthe at National-Football-Teams.com
• FootballDatabase profile and stats

v t e Netherlands squad – 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Winners (2nd Title) 1 Waterman 2 Zuiverloon 3 Vlaar (c) 4 Kruiswijk 5 Pieters 6 Maduro 7 Jenner 8 Drenthe 9 Babel 10 Aissati 11 De Ridder 12 Bruins 13 Rigters 14 Beerens 15 Schilder 16 Vermeer 17 Medunjanin 18 Donk 19 Jong-a-Pin 20 Janssen 21 van der Struijk 22 Bakkal 23 Krul Coach: De Haan

v t e Netherlands squad – 2008 Summer Olympics 1 Velthuizen 2 Zuiverloon 3 Marcellis 4 Jaliens 5 Pieters 6 Luyckx 7 de Guzmán 8 Emanuelson 9 Makaay 10 Sibon 11 Babel 12 Maduro 13 Jong-a-Pin 14 Sno 15 Drenthe 16 Beerens 17 Bakkal 18 Vermeer Coach: de Haan