Neil Bothwick wrote: >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. > > > >
Well that removed a few, all of them to be exact. The file was blank. O_O LOL I'm learning though. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
