On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:52:21 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> >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
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:39:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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>>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. T
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):
>
On Monday 12 June 2006 19:55, Christer Ekholm wrote:
> Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long.
> > I tried this:
> >
> > uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
> >
> > It doesn't look like it did anything
Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried
> this:
>
> uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
>
> It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the same thing over.
> There are only 2 lines missi
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