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-- DanGrimm - 20 Jun 2006

Merge and bulk delete of mailing list members

Found I needed to do some merge and bulk deletes. Simplest way is to ssh into ecselists and then run commands like the following:

First copy existing list (using example of smee alumni) to /tmp, and also create list of addresses to remove in /tmp. Then sort them, and then use comm 

[dan@webcamserver /tmp]  cp ~majordomo/lists/smeealumni /tmp
[dan@webcamserver /tmp]  cd /tmp
[dan@webcamserver /tmp]  sort smeealumni > smeealumni.sort
[dan@webcamserver /tmp]  sort remove.sort > remove.sort2
[dan@webcamserver /tmp]  comm -2 -3 smeealumni.sort remove.sort2 > smeealumni.final
[dan@webcamserver /tmp]           cp smeealumni.final ~majordomo/lists/smeealumni                  Put it back!

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