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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers i don't understand the "sort" command Post 17461 by Perderabo on Friday 15th of March 2002 11:16:37 AM
Old 03-15-2002
xyyz, don't feel too bad. The sort command still give me fits too. I typically need to fiddle with my sort option until I get what I want.

#1freebsddude, that was an awesome link on the sort command! But is only showing the original syntax. Posix has defined a new syntax using the -k option. It's probably time to switch to the newer syntax. Still once you get the old syntax, switching to the newer syntax is easy, so that link is still very good.

That link didn't answer -n question though. If you are specifying the fields, you would probably just add the n to field spec. -n mostly makes sense when use it alone. Here is a command that I need to type several times a week...

du -sk * | sort -n
 

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DVDXCHAP(1)							   User Commands						       DVDXCHAP(1)

NAME
dvdxchap - Extract chapter information from DVDs SYNOPSIS
dvdxchap [options] DVD-SOURCE DESCRIPTION
This program extracts chapter information from a DVD and displays it in a form usable by ogmmerge(1). -t, --title num Use title 'num'. Default is 1. -c, --chapter start[-end] Only output the given range of chapters and adjust all timecodes so that they start at 0. The default is to output all chapters. -v Increase verbosity -V Show version information -h Show help EXAMPLES
The output generated by dvdxchap will have the form CHAPTER01=00:01:35.240 CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 01 CHAPTER02=00:03:40:300 CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 02 etc. You should pipe its output to a file, edit the chapter names and use the resulting file as an input for ogmmerge(1). AUTHOR
dvdxchap was written by Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>. Some ideas were taken from Chapter-X-Tractor (<http://christophe.paris.free.fr/main.php3>) <<http://christophe.paris.free.fr/main.php3>> written by Christophe Paris. SEE ALSO
ogmmerge(1), ogmsplit(1), ogminfo(1), ogmdemux(1) WWW
The newest version can always be found at <http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/> <http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/> dvdxchap v1.5 November 2004 DVDXCHAP(1)
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