[conspire] Puzzle: How do you sort IP address lists?

[Tim Utschig]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:16:25PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> (I'll also really admire someone's elegant solution in, e.g., Python,
> Perl, or Ruby -- but I'm just boggling at how non-obvious my "sort"
> solution seems, and want to compare notes.)
> 

I wouldn't call mine elegant, but the last time I tried to figure out
how to do it using sort I gave up and used Perl...

:r!grep ipsort ~/.bashrc

    alias ipsort='perl -MSocket -lne '\''$ips{inet_aton($_)}++; END { for (sort keys %ips) { while($ips{$_}--) { print inet_ntoa($_); } } }'\'

    alias ipsortu='perl -MSocket -lne '\''$ips{inet_aton($_)} = 1; END { print inet_ntoa($_) for sort keys %ips }'\'

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