hello
i have a requirement where i have a direcotry in which i get files in the format
STOCKS.20080114.dat
STOCKS.20080115.dat
STOCKS.20080117.dat
STOCKS.20080118.dat
i need to loop through the directory and sort by create date descending order and i need to process the first file.
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hi there,
I have a directory which contents I can parse dynamically. I end up with a file list. I then want to display those files sorted by date, oldest files first. I have very very little PERL experience...Would anyone know how to do that ? Thanks in advance. (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm having a problem with some basic piping issues...
I have been able to get in a directory and ls | gsed in order to list every N file for instance:
ls | gsed -n '2~5p'
The thing is I want to be able to copy the output files to a new directory. Basically directory /all has a... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have folder1, folder2 and file1, I want to compress them in a unique file with zip extension (Output.zip).
I've been trying with zip -r Output folder1 folder2 file1
and does the job, but how can I compress them in zip format and removing the originals in the same command?
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Hey Guys,
I am facing an annoying scenario, fewer times when I execute the sort command, it throws out on error saying that "No Space on available on /var/tmp/<temp file name>. May be it is set to /var/tmp directory. I was wondering, if I cant redirect the temporary file creation to any other... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I want to join two files(file1 ,file2) which are having tab separated values,by sorting them on key column(ID) and want to redirect the output to other file(output file) along with the headers from both the files.
cat file1:
ID Name phone_no
205 mno 90808
200 xyz 32003... (9 Replies)
Hi All
I am trying to run sed command to remove first 2 charcaters from a file on Multiple Files in my directory and what to retain the same file name .
I want to know how to retain the same file name but with changes .
Can some one please let me know how to proceed with this .
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Trying to sort a bunch of files numerically but can't seem to get the command just right. This is in a IBM AIX machine.
I have a directory that has...
backup.bk1
backup.bk100
backup.bk2
backup.bk200
backup.bk3
backup.bk300
There are a lot more files but this is shortened for the... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
sort
SORT(1) General Commands Manual SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort a file of ASCII lines
SYNOPSIS
sort [-bcdfimnru] [-tc] [-o name] [+pos1] [-pos2] file ...
OPTIONS -b Skip leading blanks when making comparisons
-c Check to see if a file is sorted
-d Dictionary order: ignore punctuation
-f Fold upper case onto lower case
-i Ignore nonASCII characters
-m Merge presorted files
-n Numeric sort order
-o Next argument is output file
-r Reverse the sort order
-t Following character is field separator
-u Unique mode (delete duplicate lines)
EXAMPLES
sort -nr file # Sort keys numerically, reversed
sort +2 -4 file # Sort using fields 2 and 3 as key
sort +2 -t: -o out # Field separator is :
sort +.3 -.6 # Characters 3 through 5 form the key
DESCRIPTION
Sort sorts one or more files. If no files are specified, stdin is sorted. Output is written on standard output, unless -o is specified.
The options +pos1 -pos2 use only fields pos1 up to but not including pos2 as the sort key, where a field is a string of characters delim-
ited by spaces and tabs, unless a different field delimiter is specified with -t. Both pos1 and pos2 have the form m.n where m tells the
number of fields and n tells the number of characters. Either m or n may be omitted.
SEE ALSO comm(1), grep(1), uniq(1).
SORT(1)