On 2019 Mar 18 17:25:58, you wrote to me:

 ml>> is it time for me to run my script and post my list which now
 ml>> contains 12374 taglines? i don't recall what it had when i last
 ml>> posted it on 2016 Jul 16... a quick search seems to indicate there
 ml>> were 12059 in it at that time... each post was a max of 500 lines...

 DR> I was thinking about setting up a script as well. My list, right now,
 DR> has 51305. I've been trying to get rid of some dupes though...

if you're on linux, you might find this li'l script handy... it sorts the
taglines and removes the duplicates... just tell it the name of the file
containing the taglines... it expects the file to have a .txt extension...
the results are output into filename.sorted.uniq.txt so you don't lose the
original until you're ready to remove/overwrite it...

the script is 26 lines long... i'm pretty sure wordwrap will bite and need
to be corrected...

==== Begin "sorttaglines"  ====
#! /bin/sh

printf "\n"

printhelp() {
  printf "just tell me the file name to sort. the extension must be txt.\n"
  printf "\n"
  printf "eg: sorttaglines alltags\n"
  exit
}

case "$1" in
  ""       ) printf "ERROR: no filename given.\n";
             printhelp;;
esac

if [ ! -e $1.txt ]
then
  printf "ERROR: file $1.txt not found.\n"
  printhelp
else
  printf "$(wc -l $1.txt | cut -d" " -f1) lines in $1.txt\n"
  sort -n $1.txt | uniq > $1.sorted.uniq.txt
  printf "$(wc -l $1.sorted.uniq.txt | cut -d" " -f1) lines
in $1.sorted.uniq.txt\n"
fi
printf "\n"
==== End "sorttaglines" ====

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