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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sorting (using sort/sed/awk/whatever)
Message-ID: <3190:Aug1914:13:3790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 90 14:13:37 GMT
References: <13485@smoke.BRL.MIL> <MONTNARO.90Aug5102632@spyder.crd.ge.com> <13492@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <13492@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 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
    [ sorts by last part of newsgroup name ]
> foo.c++.bugs would be collected with other *.bugs, not with other c++ groups.

Hmmm. Perhaps remove the tail from *.misc, then collect foo.bar.* under
foo.bar whenever the latter exists. Does this do the trick?

---Dan