Hi everyone, I am looking for a script that sorts lines in a hosts file.
Some lines have "#" comments appended to the end of the line
describing the type of machine, location or application and
I really need to keep that info in the file. Here is a brief
sample of what I am dealing with.

One other thing I only have to sort one class C subnet,
therefore the sort can be isolated to the 4th octet.

<code> 10.194.196.46 chqnocp01 # Laser 4MV by Joe Blow
10.194.196.47 chqnocp02
10.194.196.49 nnocrpt01
10.194.196.50 nnocgw001
10.194.196.52 nnocs002
10.194.196.53 wslkms02 wslknms0
10.194.196.54 nnocws001
10.194.196.55 heckyll
10.194.196.57 txwl013w
10.194.196.61 krios
10.194.196.62 stasis # dial up server
10.194.196.63 nnocdts01 # sparc 5 in wan rm
10.194.196.64 saturn
10.194.196.65 libra
10.194.196.66 legato-school
10.194.196.67 txwlxdbs nnocs002a
<code>

thx

-mike

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