[ale] scripting foo

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 15 17:48:36 EST 2004


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.





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