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Block Sorting A Set Of RapidShare Links
Posted By :
maxand
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Date :
15 Jan 2007 07:12:00
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Comments :
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From time to time some inconsiderate person posts a list of RS links in a text file like this:
You would like to feed the whole list into your download manager, sorted by RAR parts. Here's an easy way.
Although many text editors allow simple line sorting, this won't work here cos what you end up with is this (sorted by RS ID):
What u need is an editor that allows vertical block sorting. Altho I'm sure there are many out there that do this, I use EditPad Pro which is excellent for this and many other jobs. You can evaluate it here (search for other AH posts as well):
http://www.avaxhome.ws/software/editpad_612.html
So, install the app and open the text file with this list of links - it should look like these screenshots, whereWeb links are blue, underlined and even clickable. Then:
Go to Options > uncheck Word Wrap.
Go to Block > check Rectangular Selections
Highlight the vertical block "part2"..."part3" (or even just the numbers 2...3), like this:
Go to Extra > Sort Alphabetically A-Z. The list should look like this:
Turn Word Wrap back on when finished.
Voila. Done. If u like EditPad Pro, buy it and keep the developer happy.
You would like to feed the whole list into your download manager, sorted by RAR parts. Here's an easy way.
Although many text editors allow simple line sorting, this won't work here cos what you end up with is this (sorted by RS ID):
What u need is an editor that allows vertical block sorting. Altho I'm sure there are many out there that do this, I use EditPad Pro which is excellent for this and many other jobs. You can evaluate it here (search for other AH posts as well):
http://www.avaxhome.ws/software/editpad_612.html
So, install the app and open the text file with this list of links - it should look like these screenshots, whereWeb links are blue, underlined and even clickable. Then:
Go to Options > uncheck Word Wrap.
Go to Block > check Rectangular Selections
Highlight the vertical block "part2"..."part3" (or even just the numbers 2...3), like this:
Go to Extra > Sort Alphabetically A-Z. The list should look like this:
Turn Word Wrap back on when finished.
Voila. Done. If u like EditPad Pro, buy it and keep the developer happy.
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Secondly, any program with sort will do this. I have use the text editor "Text Pad" for years for this sort of thing. Works exactly the same way. But there is no point doing it in the end.
Thirdly, you can do a similar thing sometimes in flashget. Paste all the links at the same time onto flashget, then sort by the column "URL". Thats all. Works IF the file numbers are in increasing order, not the filename.
I can't see how sorting a list of files by URL in FlashGet would be any diff from sorting a list of URLs using any text editor (my second screenshot), but nevertheless I'll give it a try.
Glad you mentioned TextPad - I knew other text editors would do this.
Of course, u can use this method not just for RS but for any list of download links that contains an ID number where the IDs arent in the same numerical sequence as the RAR part numbers.
open a dos box type e.g "sort /+30"
press right clict to paste
press ctrl-z (i.e eof) and hit return
voila !
now mark and press right click to copy
(make sure properties-quick edit is checked)
Yann Lapajarrr
Thats cool, I didn't know this command befor!