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# 1  
Old 04-23-2009
sort on multiple fields
hello all

I have a file names xxx with data like

1,2,3,12
1,3,6,12
1,3,5,12
2,4,6,12
6,5,6,12
4,2,7,12
4,1,3,12

I wish to sort this file xxx on first three fields in ascending order.

OUPUT should be like

1,2,3,12
1,3,5,12
1,3,6,12
2,4,6,12
4,1,3,12
4,2,7,12
6,5,6,12

how can i sort the file on all the field
# 2  
Old 04-23-2009
I used sort and gave the output you provided above....

Code:
$ cat test.txt
1,2,3,12
1,3,6,12
1,3,5,12
2,4,6,12
6,5,6,12
4,2,7,12
4,1,3,12

$ sort test.txt
1,2,3,12
1,3,5,12
1,3,6,12
2,4,6,12
4,1,3,12
4,2,7,12
6,5,6,12

# 3  
Old 04-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vasuarjula
hello all

I have a file names xxx with data like

1,2,3,12
1,3,6,12
1,3,5,12
2,4,6,12
6,5,6,12
4,2,7,12
4,1,3,12

I wish to sort this file xxx on first three fields in ascending order.

OUPUT should be like

1,2,3,12
1,3,5,12
1,3,6,12
2,4,6,12
4,1,3,12
4,2,7,12
6,5,6,12

how can i sort the file on all the field

Try sort command. Check man pages for more info.
# 4  
Old 04-24-2009
It's always a good practice to use -n option while sorting numbers....

Code:
sort -n filename

# 5  
Old 04-24-2009
Code:
cat yourfile | awk -F"," '{print $1$2$3","$0}' | sort -t"," -n | cut -d"," -f2,3,4,5

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