Clean up the hosts file 1

[jdespres]

We are in the process of migrating a application from one server to another.

With so many hands in the cookie jar the hosts file is a mess!

I would like to clean it up....

I would like to sort it and arrange the 2nd column at the same position....

Thanks

 

[p5wizard]

egrep '^[1-9]' hosts|while read adr names
do
printf "%-16s %s\n" ${adr} "${names}"
done|sort

you could use awk also I guess

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[jdespres]

This worked! Thanks for the help!