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 >