Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-04 Thread David E. Fox
> hehe nope! I'll give the data sort feature a gander when I'm in the office > tomorrow. Also, 'uniq -c' provided what she really needed- the number 'uniq -c' is one I haven't tried yet, hmm. This type of problem (counting occurences of patterns in a file) has usually been easily solvable using

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-03 Thread magnet
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:10 am, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:46 am, magnet wrote: > > I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and > > am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines > > and leave a condensed file. Can anyone s

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread civileme
On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:46 am, magnet wrote: > I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and > am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines > and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? > Thanks :) ---

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread Nathan Pryor
On Sunday 02 February 2003 06:03 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > of lines long), so she consulted with our MS guru who didn't have a > > solution. Didn't take long for me and my SCO box to provide her with > > Her M/S "guru" didn't know about Excel's Data Sort feature? She could > have had that report

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread David E. Fox
> I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and a= > m=20 > trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and= > =20 > leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? sort < urlfile | uniq >newfile HTH > Want to buy you

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:19, magnet wrote: > On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:55 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: > > Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be > > one on the net have a look > > > > On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote: > > > I have a large text file containi

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread magnet
On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:55 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: > Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be > one on the net have a look > > On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote: > > I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and > > am trying

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be one on the net have a look On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote: > I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and > am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines >

[newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-02 Thread magnet
I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? Thanks :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840