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This post has nothing to do with dns or reverse dns. This is only talking about sorting text.

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Sort of like how flippin' freedesktop.org uses "reverse DNS names" to get such lovely files as /usr/share/applications/org.geeqie.Geeqie.desktop, I wanted to sort some domain names. A sorted list looks less like I just made it up, and like I pulled it out of a report or tool!

So I have a small script here that sorts via "reverse DNS" convention.

awk -F'.' '
{
    for (i=NF; i>0; i--) {
        printf "%s %s", $(i), (i>1 ? "." : "")
    }
    print $0
}' | sort | awk '{print $NF}'

It was too small to bother putting it in the files/ for this post.