Awk and sort (of text files)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 01Jul2015 10:19, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 06/30/2015 08:02 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>>>Personally I tend to use a nontexty character for this kind of 
>>>>placeholder, such as ^G. Less risk of excountering that in the 
>>>>input text, and therefore less risk of accidentally mangling it.
>>
>>Eliminate risk.
>>Replace all strings of e's with another string of e's, one e longer.
>>Replace the intra-paragraph newlines with one e each.
>>Sort.
>>Undo the previous replacements.
>>If, for some reason, one does not like e, use a vertical stroke.
>>
>You misquote.
>I did not make the comment you attribute to me.

Indeed, but it looks like Michael Hennebry misquoted. As I made that
comment:-)

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>