Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:48:28 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scripting help Message-ID: <20040109154828.GA23424@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20040109091937.014b2378@10.0.0.15> References: <3.0.5.32.20040109091937.014b2378@10.0.0.15>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:19:37AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> Dear list:
> I hope think this is not off-topic, and is just about running a script in
> FBSD to delete specific lines in a flat file based on info in another flat
> file.
>=20
> My scripting skills are very limited and need help on how to purge my mail
> lists. We maintain several majordomo mail lists on a Tech magazine site
> (www.antennex.com) with 60,000 readers. Needless to say, it is real tedio=
us
> to try and keep the lists up to date (groan).
>=20
> I have scripted a way to capture the bounces (by list) into a plain text
> file (1 address per line), but haven't figured out how to purge those from
> the lists. In other words, if the address is found in the bounce list, th=
en
> delete from the main lists (also one address per line).
>=20
> I'd appreciate suggestions on how to do this.
comm(1) is what you need. Try:
% sort mailing-list > mailing-list.sorted
% sort bounce-addresses > bounce-addresses.sorted
% comm -23 mailing-list.sorted bounce-addresses.sorted > mailing-list
=20
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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