Re: [Nolug] Sorting lists of domains

sounds like a job for perl. don't know the code off hand, but it seems to
be best for this.

simplest to develop and fast.

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----- Original Message -----
From: <mrobinso@fpkc.com>
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Cc: <mrobinso@fpkc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:38 PM
Subject: [Nolug] Sorting lists of domains

> The list has been a little quiet (down ?) for a couple of days, so here's
an easy question.
>
> I'm looking for a utility - Linux or otherwise - to take a list of domains
or even email
> addresses and sort them from the TLD down. In other words, treating
periods as field
> delimiters and sorting fields from right to left. So, for example:
>
> h.net
> 3.e.edu
> c.mil
> d.com
> 1.a.com
> 4.f.net
> g.uk
> 2.b.gov
> 5.a.com
>
> would sort to
>
> 1.a.com
> 5.a.com
> d.com
> 3.e.edu
> 2.b.gov
> c.mil
> 4.f.net
> h.net
> g.uk
>
> Someone must have made a tool to do this, but I can't find one. I could
probably cobble
> something together in Perl, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. All I
get from
> web searches are mailing list programs and domain registration tools.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Mark Robinson
>
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