On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, David Fleck wrote: > this may be of no help to you at all, but the following string does what > you ask on a short unsorted text file of addresses on my machine: > > cat filename | sed 's/^$/x/' | tr '\n' '+' | tr 'x' '\n' | sed '/^+$/d' > | sort | tr '+' '\n'
David, This almost works. There are a couple of blocks that are mangled; the end portion of a line is separated from the beginning and separately sorted. I'll look into this. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
