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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting rules on a text section Post 302098482 by Manish Jha on Monday 4th of December 2006 01:22:16 PM
Old 12-04-2006
you could do this by having few intermediate steps like create temporary files for each document sections and then sort the necessary temporary file as per your need and later combind them in the same order. Hope this would help.

--Manish
 

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texindex

TEXINDEX(1)							   User Commands						       TEXINDEX(1)

NAME

       texindex - sort Texinfo index files

SYNOPSIS

       texindex [OPTION]... FILE...

DESCRIPTION

       Generate a sorted index for each TeX output FILE.  Usually FILE... is specified as `foo.??' for a document `foo.texi'.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      display this help and exit

       -k, --keep
	      keep temporary files around after processing

       --no-keep
	      do not keep temporary files around after processing (default)

       -o, --output FILE
	      send output to FILE

       --version
	      display version information and exit

REPORTING BUGS

       Email   bug   reports   to   bug-texinfo@gnu.org,   general   questions	 and  discussion  to  help-texinfo@gnu.org.   Texinfo  home  page:
       http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software under the  terms  of  the  GNU
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SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for texindex is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and texindex programs are properly installed at your
       site, the command

	      info texindex

       should give you access to the complete manual.

texindex 4.8							   December 2004						       TEXINDEX(1)
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