Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: >On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >>Hi folks, >> >>I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and >>all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have >>found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted >>from several sources. I am not a programer at all and don't even really >>know what to search for. I would like to remove the duplicate entries >>and then put them in alphabetical order if I could. I would gladly then >>make this available if someone wanted to host it. I don't have a place >>to host it. >> >>Oh, there is 15,000 entries in my hosts file. O_O >> >>Could someone tell me how this is done? May even learn something here. >>If I can do this, I'm sure I will. >> >>Thanks. >> >>Dale >> >>:-) :-) >> >> > >'uniq' and 'sort' should do what you're after, check out the man pages. > > >
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 missing. Does spaces count? Some put in a lot of spaces between the localhost and the web address. Maybe that has a affect?? Thanks for the help. I had never seen that command before. I had heard of sort, never used it though. I do have those on my desktop. I'm playing with copies instead of my real hosts file. Thanks again. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
