I had a similiar problem that I managed to solve with awk. As long as
you know which field has the value you want, awk will work. I will see
if I can find the script I wrote, and send it to you.
Marc Russo (mrusso@al.iisl.com)
International Integrated Solutions, LTD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucy Premus [SMTP:lpremus@METLIFE.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 1:02 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: uniq command
>
> A few weeks back I had asked if there were a way to count lines that
> contained a
> field that was the same. Most of the suggestions were to use the uniq
> command.
> I want to say thank you, it was exactly what I needed. But now I have
> a related
> question. Is there a way to read lines in a file containing a field
> thats the
> same and output those lines to another file; again without knowing the
> value of
> the field? For example, my file looks like this
>
> server1 nyho
> server2 nyho
> server3 nyho
> server4 risc
> server5 risc
> server6 mlb
> server7 mlb
> server8 mlb
> server9 mlb
>
> The result will be 3 files that look as follows:
>
> server1 nyho server4 risc server6 mlb
> server2 nyho server5 risc server7 mlb
> server3 nyho server8 mlb
> server9 mlb
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