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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:39:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>If /etc/hosts has these lines: |
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>>127.0.0.1 localhost |
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>>127.0.0.1 localhost |
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>>uniq will see these as different even though they are actually the |
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>>same entry. So he needs something like tr to squash spaces. This will |
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>>do it (as root): |
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>>cat /etc/hosts | tr -s ' ' | sort | uniq -i > /etc/hosts.new |
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>sort -u -k1,1 /etc/hosts >/etc/hosts.new |
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>avoids the need to use cat, uniq or tr. -k1,1 sorts on the first field |
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>(space delimited) and -u remove lines where the sort field is the same. |
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Well that removed a few, all of them to be exact. The file was blank. |
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O_O LOL I'm learning though. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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