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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort complicated two fields Post 302186535 by lalelle on Thursday 17th of April 2008 12:51:24 PM
Old 04-17-2008
Sort complicated two fields
Hi experts,

I am trying sort command with my data but still not getting the expected results.

For example, I have 5 fields data here

c,18:12:45,c,c,c
d,12:34:34,d,d,d
a,13:50:10,a,a,a
b,13:50:50,b,b,b
a,13:50:50,a,a,a
b,14:10:01,b,b,b
c,10:12:45,c,c,c


I want to get

a,13:50:50,a,a,a
b,14:10:01,b,b,b
c,18:12:45,c,c,c
d,12:34:34,d,d,d


I want to sort on the fifth field and sort reversely on the second field; getting the unique data of the fifth field; the unique record should be the lastest time(second field).

sort -r -t"," -k2,2 filename |sort -u -t"," -k5 >result
However, the result shows
a,13:50:10,a,a,a
b,13:50:50,b,b,b
c,10:12:45,c,c,c
d,12:34:34,d,d,d


Please help
 

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