At 1:38 PM -0500 2/3/01, Tim Pierce is rumored to have typed:
I dunno. When I have to do things like this, I haven't had much trouble doing it on the fly. No one may have yet felt the need to write a big whizzy software package for these tasks.
I'm sorry...I honestly wasn't looking for anything "big" or "whizzy," only trying to keep from reinventing the wheel. (I prefer small and fast anyway.)
You could merge two dist files with "cat dist1 dist2 | sort -u > dist.big", and then fudging "Only addresses below this line."
I could, I suppose, although I prefer to use comm and other more modern text-manipulating tools to do the same thing more efficiently, without invoking yet-another-cat. (And, of course, my idea here was actually to deal with the "(Only addresses" line in-line instead of using pico, joe, or vi later to fudge it. I'm unquestionably a lazy soul, who would rather do as few repetitive tasks manually as absolutely necessary.)
Per-domain percentages is an interesting one. I would probably do something like this:
I'm not sure I'd use perl for something this relatively simple, frankly, but I'll look over your suggestion to see if it can be integrated into the scripts I've already done.
Basically, I was asking if anyone had written a set of shell scripts or the like to do what I think of as routine dist maintenance (particularly when dealing with interactive/digest pairs, or lists with similar but not quite identical focuses), or if I needed to do it myself; apparently, I wasn't clear, and for that I appologize. Like I said, I'm lazy, and if someone else has already done the work, I'd just as soon not duplicate the effort.
Since no one responded (actually, David Kelley did, and thanks, David, but that response referenced a Windows application and I'm happy to stay in unix), I assumed no one had done so, so I handled a few of those tasks I do on a routine basis myself. Hopefully I'll eventually expand on the scripts (time allowing) and make them even more self-contained, so eventually the next guy down the road _can_ be lazy. ;)
Charlie