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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sorting (using sort/sed/awk/whatever)
Message-ID: <13492@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Aug 90 11:51:43 GMT
References: <2943@mtung.ATT.COM> <13485@smoke.BRL.MIL> <MONTNARO.90Aug5102632@spyder.crd.ge.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <MONTNARO.90Aug5102632@spyder.crd.ge.com> montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
>In article <13485@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>   Surely you jest.  You're asking for an artificial intelligence program here.
>I don't know. The following short shell script seems to do what Luke wanted
>(cluster all the C++ groups together, regardless of their spot in the Usenet
>tree).

It only orders by the last member of the hierarchy, which is not very helpful
(as you can see by running a large .newsrc through this process).  For example,
foo.c++.bugs would be collected with other *.bugs, not with other c++ groups.