Linux, Unix, /etc/

$ To set up this Linux system, do I really have to type long,
cryptic, frequently inconsistent and undocumented commands with
occasional long strings of hex digits?

# Yeah. You got a problem with that?

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#!/bin/ksh
#chunksort: sort multi-line records (record separator single blank line)
ctrla=`echo a | tr a '\001'`
files=""
sortopts=""

# parse command line args
while :
do
    case "$1" in
	"") break ;;
	-a) sortopts="$sortopts -t$ctrla" ;;
	-o) echo "`basename $0` quitting: I don't have an -o option." 1>&2
	    exit 1 ;;
	-[Tyz]) sortopts="$sortopts $1 $2"
	    shift ;;
	[-+]*)  sortopts="$sortopts $1" ;;
	*) files="files $1" ;;
    esac
    shift
done

# replace format, do the sorting, restore format
sed -n '
/^$/ {
    x
    s/'$crtla'$//
    p
    b
}
H
g
s/\n//
s/$/'$ctrla'/
h' $files |
sort $sortopts |
sed "
s/$ctrla/\\
/g
G"

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