_unique

The _unique command generates a filtered list of unique values for a given attribute. For example, to generate the list project names:

$ task _unique project
Home
Home.Garden
Work

In addition to project, any attribute can be specified, for example, task status:

$ task _unique status
pending
deleted
completed

There

Filters

You can specify a filter, to consider a subset of tasks, for example, here we see that the Home.Garden project has only pending tasks:

$ task project:Home.Garden _unique status
pending

Limitations

• Date attributes are presented in raw epoch form. This is a helper command, after all.

See Also

Other ways of generating unique lists include:

• _aliases command
• _config command
• _context command
• _ids command
• _projects command
• _show command
• _tags command
• _udas command
• _uuids command