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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: |
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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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Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried |
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this: |
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uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort |
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It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the same thing over. |
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There are only 2 lines missing. Does spaces count? Some put in a lot |
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of spaces between the localhost and the web address. Maybe that has a |
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affect?? |
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Thanks for the help. I had never seen that command before. I had heard |
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of sort, never used it though. I do have those on my desktop. I'm |
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playing with copies instead of my real hosts file. |
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Thanks again. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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