Scripting question

[Kurt Buff]

On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> 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 since I had need of sort. I
> don't remember the arguments/flags but am sure that type of thing can be done.
>
> ////jerry

Ya know, it's really easy to get wrapped around the axle on this stuff.

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 merge, sort and further massage the result. The
fix will be to use sed against the first file to remove the ' NO',
thus providing a clean argument for grepping the other file.

Sigh.

Kurt