hehehe,

thanks

aloha,
dave

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:38:15PM +1100, Doug Kearns wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:42:30PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Doug Kearns wrote:
> > 
> > > You could replace the awk invocation with +'/^$/+1'
> > 
> > Thanks for the information. May I ask you another question regarding awk,
> > please? My wife is a linguist and she would for some of her research
> > retrograde sort (i.e., sorting by words taken from the other end), like
> > this. Unsorted set of words:
> > 
> > pine
> > mutt
> > netscape
> > kmail
> > 
> > should be sorted in this set:
> > 
> > pine
> > netscape
> > kmail
> > mutt
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> rev filename | sort | rev
> 
> Regards,
> Doug
> 

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