Awk and sort (of text files)

[Bill Oliver]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> 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>
>

Would it help if I said I *wished* I'd made the comment?

billo