Hi Jamie,
On Wednesday 02/08/2000 at 20:32, you wrote:
SL>> The GNU text utils would work wonders here.
SL>> type file | sort | uniq > file.new
<snip>
> I've never used GNU text editing tools.
You don't know what you're missing :) I'm not Linux's no.1 fan anymore
(in some ways it's *very* difficult to use, but I refuse to discuss that
on this list).
However: the GNU tools are extremely useful and a lot easier to use
than you think... I think they were ported to Win32 as well, which
makes Steve's point more valid to those who aren't Linux zealots.
I think my fave GNU tool has to be grep... for example: Suppose you
had a list of email addresses that you pulled from the TBUDL list. You
want to find anyone who uses AOL, to place in a killfile (hey, I'm
still allowed to be evil!)
You type "cat tbudladdresses.txt | grep aol" and it would list anyone
with AOL in their address. You then export the output to a real "kill
file". Super!
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