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> I'm looking for some opinions on a better way to do something that I
> currently do as part of a much larger lengthy script.  Basically I
> have a program that outputs data in the following format (sans the
> hashed lines):
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 5 colors match RGB search:
>      red
>      yellow
>      orange
>      blue
>      green
> -----------------------------------
> 
> Without using perl, and only using common progs (awk,sed,cut,etc), what 
> is the most optimized way to return a sorted, left-justified, right-trimmed,
> list of results like this:
> 
> -----------------------------------
> blue
> green
> orange
> red
> yellow
> -----------------------------------
> 
> 
> Tia,
> 
> -Jim P.

$ cat foo | grep -v RGB | awk {'print $1;'}

???

Jonathan Glass

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