On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and > all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have > found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted > from several sources. I am not a programer at all and don't even really > know what to search for. I would like to remove the duplicate entries > and then put them in alphabetical order if I could. I would gladly then > make this available if someone wanted to host it. I don't have a place > to host it. > > Oh, there is 15,000 entries in my hosts file. O_O > > Could someone tell me how this is done? May even learn something here. > If I can do this, I'm sure I will. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
'uniq' and 'sort' should do what you're after, check out the man pages. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
