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On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and |
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> all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have |
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> found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted |
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> from several sources. I am not a programer at all and don't even really |
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> know what to search for. I would like to remove the duplicate entries |
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> and then put them in alphabetical order if I could. I would gladly then |
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> make this available if someone wanted to host it. I don't have a place |
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> to host it. |
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> Oh, there is 15,000 entries in my hosts file. O_O |
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> Could someone tell me how this is done? May even learn something here. |
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> If I can do this, I'm sure I will. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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'uniq' and 'sort' should do what you're after, check out the man pages. |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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