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 character within the line. > > > > Example: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] NO > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK > > > > The above lines *both* need to be eliminated from output - I don't > > want the first or second of them, I want them both gone. > > > > I've looked at sort and uniq, and I've googled a fair bit but can't > > seem to find anything that would do this. > > > > I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal. > > > > Any help out there? > > #!/usr/bin/perl > while (<>) { > # Assuming no whitespace in addresses; kill everything after the first > space > s/ .*$//; > # Store the name & count in a hash > $names{$_}++; > } > # Go over the hash > while (($name,$count) = each(%names)) { > if ($count == 1) { > # print unique names. > print $name, "\n"; > } > } > > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
I can follow the logic in that. I'll definitely try incorporating that. Thanks! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"