Re: [Nolug] Sorting lists of domains

Let's see who can do this in a shell script with the least amount of code.

At 01:38 PM 6/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>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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