On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:39:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > If /etc/hosts has these lines: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.0.1 localhost > uniq will see these as different even though they are actually the > same entry. So he needs something like tr to squash spaces. This will > do it (as root): > > cat /etc/hosts | tr -s ' ' | sort | uniq -i > /etc/hosts.new
sort -u -k1,1 /etc/hosts >/etc/hosts.new avoids the need to use cat, uniq or tr. -k1,1 sorts on the first field (space delimited) and -u remove lines where the sort field is the same. -- Neil Bothwick Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again.
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