Hello everyone, i am trying to create an ignore list for my
bogofilter. I would like to ignore all words that are less than 4
characters. How can i sort my words list file by length of the words.
Thanks.

On Sep 7, 9:07 am, joe <jcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, i am trying to create an ignore list for my
> bogofilter. I would like to ignore all words that are less than 4
> characters. How can i sort my words list file by length of the words.
> Thanks.

ruby -e 'puts ARGF.sort_by{|w| w.size}' myfile

joe <jcharth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, i am trying to create an ignore list for my
> bogofilter. I would like to ignore all words that are less than 4
> characters. How can i sort my words list file by length of the words.
> Thanks.

If you only want to ignore the lines that contain less than four
characters, simply use grep:

grep '....' words

If, however, you need to sort the words by length, here is one solution:

awk '{ print $0,length }' words | sort -k2n | awk '{ print $1 }'

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Kenan Kalajdzic

Thanks Guys, I ended up using cat file|perl -e 'print sort
{ length($b) <=> length($a) } <>' but opted not to use any ignore
files.