On Friday 05 December 2003 01:01 am, Simon White wrote: > 04-Dec-03 at 15:43, Dennis Black ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Hmmm > > uniq -u means print only unique lines. uniq -d means only duplicate > lines. uniq only works well if sort is applied first. add_members / > sync_members will ignore dupes anyway (but sort then uniq might be > quicker). tr is not obligatory but I can see what you're getting at > (changing case so that everyone's emails are in lower case for both > lists).
Yep, I noticed this problem also in testing. > I'd do something a bit more like (replace $prefix with path to mailman) > > # get member lists into the temp file > $prefix/bin/list_members the-a-list > /tmp/abc.wk1 > $prefix/bin/list_members the-b-list >> /tmp/abc.wk1 > > # convert everything to lower case > tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < /tmp/abc.wk1 > /tmp/abc.wk2 I noticed in mm 2.1.x that list_members returns all lowercase unless you provide a flag to return original case as entered, so this isn't necessary. > # deduplicate from 2nd temp file and overwrite 1st temp file, to save > # counting upwards all the time; we could do this on one line and pipe > # to another pipe and so on... but separating isn't such a bad thing > sort -d /tmp/abc.wk2 | uniq > /tmp/abc.wk1 > > # now sync back to the list > $prefix/bin/sync_members -w=no -f /tmp/abc.wk1 the-big-list I now have a working script! So thanks again to all for your ideas and feedback! Regards, John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
