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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers gawk asort to sort record groups based on one subfield Post 302711711 by Don Cragun on Sunday 7th of October 2012 10:56:26 PM
Old 10-07-2012
The versions of awk that I use (on OS X) don't have the asort() and asorti() functions, but I have read the gawk man page. Unlike the sort utility, there is no way to specify a sort key for these functions; they always sort the array using the entire contents of the string as the sort key. If you want to use asort() in gawk to sort with field 1 as your primary sort key and the second part of field 2 as your secondary key; you need to prepend each line in your array with primary and secondary sort fields, use asort() or asorti() to sort the modified records, and then strip off the added sort fields when you print (or otherwise process) the results.
 

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ppmtosixel(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.	The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
	      pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands.  A raw file is often an order	of  magni-
	      tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower.

       -margin
	      If  -margin  is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever).  If -margin is speci-
	      fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.

PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

       Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion.  If the original PPM maxval was
       greater	than  100,  rescaling  also reduces the image depth.  While the actual RGB values from the ppm file are more or less retained, the
       color palette of the LJ250 may not match the colors on your screen.  This seems to be a printer limitation.

SEE ALSO

       ppm(5)

AUTHOR

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