Re: Scripting question

2007-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:35, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. [snip] I've looked at sort and uniq, and I've googled a fair bit but can't seem to find anything that

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal. -- snip -- Another approach in Perl would be: #!/usr/bin/perl my (%names, %dups); while () { my ($key) = split; $dups{$key} = 1 if $names{$key}; $names{$key} = 1; } delete @names{keys %dups}; # # keys %names is

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 14 September 2007 09:42, Steve Bertrand wrote: I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal. -- snip -- Another approach in Perl would be: #!/usr/bin/perl my (%names, %dups); while () { my ($key) = split; $dups{$key} = 1 if $names{$key};

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate the lines that are the same up to a space character within the line. Example: [EMAIL

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
First, please always make sure your responses go to the list. It is both list etiquette and of practical value. Follow-ups to only an individual may not reach the person who can provide real help. Most Email clients have a group reply which will do the trick. On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:32:34AM

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only space is the one separating the SMTP address from the OK or NO. Then you should be able to tell it to sort on the first token in the string with white space as a separator and to eliminate duplicates. It has been a long time

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, please always make sure your responses go to the list. It is both list etiquette and of practical value. Follow-ups to only an individual may not reach the person who can provide real help. Most Email clients have a group reply

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate the lines that are the same up to a space character within the line. Example: [EMAIL

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a concatenation of two files. Silly me, it's better to 'grep -v' with the one file vs. the second rather than trying to

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Craig Whipp
On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only space is the one separating the SMTP address from the OK or NO. Then you should be able to tell it to sort on the first token in the string with white space as a separator and to eliminate duplicates. It has been a long time

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/13/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate the lines that are the same up to a space

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/13/07, Craig Whipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only space is the one separating the SMTP address from the OK or NO. Then you should be able to tell it to sort on the first token in the string with white space as a separator

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/13/07, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a concatenation of two files. Silly me, it's better to

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: Instead of grep -v take a look at comm. Interesting! I just looked at the man page, and while I don't think it it's going to be directly useful (or I'm just not reading the page correctly), it's a new utility to me - I'll keep it in mind for

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:19, Kurt Buff wrote: On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only space is the one separating the SMTP address from the OK or NO. Then you should be able to tell it to sort on the first token in the string with white space as a

RE: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread David Christensen
Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. ... I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal. Any help out there? Buy Learning Perl, Fourth Edition, read it, and do the exercises:

Re: scripting question

2006-10-03 Thread Ivan Levchenko
(forgot to cc the list =)) Remove the word root from the crontab entry. The user should be specified only in the system crontab. On 10/3/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i made a script and put on root's crontab, however it's not doing or showing the output that is forwarded to my email

Re: scripting question

2006-10-03 Thread jan gestre
On 10/3/06, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove the word root from the crontab entry. The user should be specified only in the system crontab. thanks ivan, but the solution i made was i put in the /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily directory, it is now working :D On 10/3/06, jan

Re: scripting question

2006-10-02 Thread Atom Powers
On 10/2/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i made a script and put on root's crontab, however it's not doing or showing the output that is forwarded to my email address correctly therefore i'm not sure if it is working or not. below is what the script look like: ... 30 8 * * * root