I am using sort -r option to basically reverse the comparison in descending order. However, i found out that my file is not sorted according, can anyone please help.
My data is something like:-
Hello world
20.982342864 343
19.234355545 222
1.5567846 345
17.8767787 200
If I use the option -g or -n it works..but it is in ascending order. but I would like to display in descending order.I tried -nr but the Hello world line would be reverse as well as the last item.
My desired output would be
Hello world
20.982342864 343
19.234355545 222
17.8767787 200
1.5567846 345
Hey guys, I have a file that contains the following:
366 K
364 Q
12 UB
7 INC. P
4 Law
2 LAMB
2 High
1 QEG
1 OF
1 LC
1 B
As you can see, it's already sorted by numerical order, how do I sort it again, breaking the ties by using the alphabetical order of the second column, but... (2 Replies)
Hi to all.
I'm trying to sort this with the Unix command sort.
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1
I need to get this:
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2... (7 Replies)
Looking for help for sort, I learned that for sorting numbers I use:
sort -n
but it seems that that is not enough when you have numbers like 0.2000E+7 for example, sort -n will not worry about the E+7 part, and will just sort the numbers like 0.2000.
Exapmle:
cat example.txt
.91000E+07... (9 Replies)
Hello,
okey so my script is using 4 variables that are either empty or numbers in the following format:
NUMBER_1 NUMBER_2 NUMBER_3 NUMBER_4
So they're basically separated by a space and I need to echo the lowest number, so far I've been doing it like this:
echo "2 3 1 3" | tr " "... (6 Replies)
I would like to know how to sort version numbers, using bash or perl. I would like to sort file names that are program names with version numbers and extensions, such as hello-0.2.3.tar.gz and hello-0.10.3.tar.gz.
Version numbers of computer programs do not comply with the mathematical rule... (3 Replies)
Although i tried multiple option i couldn't find a way to get the rigt ouput.
Say i have the following data
cat file.txt
C request
C response
C request
C response
The output should look like (9 Replies)
I have files like this:
1
3
4
6
14
3
6
I want to extract the highest number. I have tried using
cat filename | sort
but then 9 would become higher than 14.
So how do I sort? (1 Reply)
I have a file which has the following data :-
how can I sort the data in descending order .
My files may have the first column with 1 to 10000 numbers .I need to arrange them in descending order .
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am having contents in a file like below,
cat testfile
rpool/swap
rpool/swap14
rpool/swap2
rpool/swap3
I want to sort the above contents like,
rpool/swap
rpool/swap2
rpool/swap3
rpool/swap14
I have tried in this way, (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sumanthsv
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
look
look(1) General Commands Manual look(1)NAME
look - Finds lines in a sorted list
SYNOPSIS
look [-df] [-tcharacter] string [file]
The look command prints all lines in a sorted file that begin with string.
OPTIONS
Uses dictionary order; only letters, digits, tabs, and spaces are used in comparisons. Searches without regard to case; treats uppercase
and lowercase as equivalent. Ignores character and characters following it in the search string. If you specify look -tC ABCDE, the
string ABCDE would become (in effect) AB, with CDE being ignored. This option is primarily for shell scripts, in which more than one
string is being processed.
DESCRIPTION
If no file is specified, look searches in the system word list /usr/share/dict/words, with the options -df assumed by default.
The look command uses binary search.
The -d and -f options affect comparisons as in sort.
NOTES
In order to use the -f option, you must first sort file with the sort -f command; otherwise, look displays only lowercase items.
If you do not specify -f, but specify a file (such as /usr/share/dict/words) that has been sorted with sort -f, look may not produce any
output.
EXAMPLES
To search a sorted file called sortfile for all lines that begin with the string as, enter: look as sortfile To search the system word list
for all words beginning with smi, enter: look smi
This might result in: smile smirk smith smithereens Smithfield Smithson smithy smitten
FILES
System word list.
SEE ALSO
Commands: grep(1), sort(1), spell(1)look(1)