Wow, thanks allot for working this out. This will really save me allot of time. It looks like it would be reasonable to make simple changes, like to alphanumeric sorting, or to change the sort order.
After a few changes to make this into a callable script run in bash, this is what I ended up with.
I have a local sort file with the list of headers to sort on, and this scripts lives with the rest of my path tools (/usr/local/bin/) so I can call it from the shell or another script.
Hi friends,
I want to use sort command in script. I used the following syntax in my scipt,
sort -t '|' +3 tempcdrext4.cdr > temp.mocdr
It give me a error " Input file specified two times."
but this command work fine in the prompt without any problem.
Can sombody please tell me who... (2 Replies)
ok.
i am doing a project where i have hand typed in the titles of nearly 500 DVD titles, each one is on a seperate line.
but they arent in any type of alphebetical order, and i need them sorted in that format (A-Z or a-z) .....
i know that the 'sort' command can be used but also know the... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a .csv file with 3 columns called nLats, nLongs, and fRes. in following format :
"nLats","nLongs","fRes"
0,0,-1
0,1,-1
0,2,-1
0,3,-1
0,4,-1
.........
.........
0,143,-1 nLats increments at nLongs=143
1,0, -1
1,1, -1
..........
..........
1,143,-1... (1 Reply)
I have a file with four fields and an awk script that strips out one field displaying the remaining three. I have added headings for each of these fields such as Player - Year - RBIs then below it comes the data. What I am trying to do is sort the RBIs field in my script from most to least at the... (9 Replies)
Hi i have a file like this
oprvdw vrc002093j.ksh
oprvdw vrc002092j.ksh
oprvrc vrc045016j.ksh
oprvrc vrc055141j.ksh
svemietl bdw0231185.sh
svemietl bdw0231145.sh
and i need a script which dispalys in below format:
oprvdw :
vrc002093j.ksh
vrc002092j.ksh
oprvrc :... (0 Replies)
Hello all -
I am to this forum and fairly new in learning unix and finding some difficulty in preparing a small shell script. I am trying to make script to sort all the files given by user as input (either the exact full name of the file or say the files matching the criteria like all files... (3 Replies)
hi guys
i looking for someone to help me with a script
i want to sort all de files from /bin by size (from max to min) and the size and path of first 3 files to be written in /home/user/bin_size .And i want to put that script in crontab to execute every monday at 20:00
Can someone help me... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a filelist collected from another server , now want to sort the output using date/time stamp filed.
- Filed 6, 7,8 are showing the date/time/stamp.
Here is the input:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
-rw------- 1 root ... (3 Replies)
Hi geeks!
I want to convert the following:
EPC-NotificationData: sms:2348034503643
EPC-GroupIds: 300H:10:22-01-2014T07:30:14,22-04-2014T07:30:14
To:
EPC-NotificationData: sms:2348034503643, EPC-GroupIds: 300H:10:22-01-2014T07:30:14,22-04-2014T07:30:14
I want them to be on the same... (13 Replies)
I'm trying to create a shell script that takes a awk script that I wrote and a filename as an argument. I was able to get that done but I'm having trouble figuring out how to keep the header of the output at the top but sort the rest of the rows alphabetically. This is what I have now but it is... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Eric7giants
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
sort
SORT(1) User Commands SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort lines of text files
SYNOPSIS
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
sort [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options:
-b, --ignore-leading-blanks
ignore leading blanks
-d, --dictionary-order
consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
-f, --ignore-case
fold lower case to upper case characters
-g, --general-numeric-sort
compare according to general numerical value
-i, --ignore-nonprinting
consider only printable characters
-M, --month-sort
compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'
-h, --human-numeric-sort
compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
-n, --numeric-sort
compare according to string numerical value
-R, --random-sort
shuffle, but group identical keys. See shuf(1)--random-source=FILE
get random bytes from FILE
-r, --reverse
reverse the result of comparisons
--sort=WORD
sort according to WORD: general-numeric -g, human-numeric -h, month -M, numeric -n, random -R, version -V
-V, --version-sort
natural sort of (version) numbers within text
Other options:
--batch-size=NMERGE
merge at most NMERGE inputs at once; for more use temp files
-c, --check, --check=diagnose-first
check for sorted input; do not sort
-C, --check=quiet, --check=silent
like -c, but do not report first bad line
--compress-program=PROG
compress temporaries with PROG; decompress them with PROG -d
--debug
annotate the part of the line used to sort, and warn about questionable usage to stderr
--files0-from=F
read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-k, --key=KEYDEF
sort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type
-m, --merge
merge already sorted files; do not sort
-o, --output=FILE
write result to FILE instead of standard output
-s, --stable
stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
-S, --buffer-size=SIZE
use SIZE for main memory buffer
-t, --field-separator=SEP
use SEP instead of non-blank to blank transition
-T, --temporary-directory=DIR
use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp; multiple options specify multiple directories
--parallel=N
change the number of sorts run concurrently to N
-u, --unique
with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run
-z, --zero-terminated
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position, where F is a field number and C a character position in the field; both
are origin 1, and the stop position defaults to the line's end. If neither -t nor -b is in effect, characters in a field are counted from
the beginning of the preceding whitespace. OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options [bdfgiMhnRrV], which override global order-
ing options for that key. If no key is given, use the entire line as the key. Use --debug to diagnose incorrect key usage.
SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: % 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
native byte values.
AUTHOR
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sort translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO shuf(1), uniq(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sort>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sort invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 SORT(1)