At least on Linux, there is a program called uniq where you feed in a sorted list and you get only one of the numbers out. So, if you pipe sort into uniq, that should work for you. I don't know if DOS has any such command.
On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:28:35 -0500, Dave via Talk wrote: > > Good Morning, > > Thanks for the several suggestions. > > Here's a bit more on what I am doing: > > The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. > Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. > > So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the > caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. > > The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list > of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the > customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or > multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be > duplicates. > > > -- > And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to > get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. > > Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but > those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that > file would be, or what it would be called. > > So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone > system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long > list. > > Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, > but this is not fool proof. > > So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone > numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for > Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. > > The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting > called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a > customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. > > So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers > into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. > > <Smile> Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. > > Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my > document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. > > Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the > power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me > and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to > remove all duplicates. > > So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks > here. > > Grumpy Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/covici%40ccs.covici.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
