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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:04 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Scripting question
Message-ID:  <20070913183504.GC11683@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860709131016w54c12b6fy94fc2b0f286aea3d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a9f4a3860709131016w54c12b6fy94fc2b0f286aea3d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts.
> 
> I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate the
> lines that are the same up to a space character within the line.
> 
> Example:
> 
> kurt.buff@gmail.com NO
> kurt.buff@gmail.com OK
> 
> The above lines *both* need to be eliminated from output - I don't
> want the first or second of them, I want them both gone.
> 
> I've looked at sort and uniq, and I've googled a fair bit but can't
> seem to find anything that would do this.
> 
> I don't have the perl skills, though that would be ideal.
> 
> Any help out there?

#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>) {
    # Assuming no whitespace in addresses; kill everything after the first space
    s/ .*$//;
    # Store the name & count in a hash
    $names{$_}++;
}
# Go over the hash
while (($name,$count) = each(%names)) {
  if ($count == 1) {
      # print unique names.
      print $name, "\n";
  }
}


Roland
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