$ perl -MO=Deparse -F: -lane 'push @x, $F[0] if /^[A-Z]/}{print for sort @x' BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; } LINE: while (defined($_ = readline ARGV)) { chomp $_; our @F = split(/:/, $_, 0); push @x, $F[0] if /^[A-Z]/; } { print $_ foreach (sort @x); }