so i have been trying to learn how to manipulate text on my own and have gotten stumped...
let's say i have a text file that says (highly simplified):
people ordinary
How would swap the order of the words..
I know i need to use sed and some kind of back reference but cannot make it... (2 Replies)
I a file with log entries... I want to sort it so that the last line in the file is first and the first line is last..
eg.
Sample file
1
h
a
f
8
6
After sort should look like
6
8
f
a
h
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command/script(apart from awk) to print the fields in reverse order
that is last field has to come first and so on and first field has to go last
Input
store-id date sale
.............
.............
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to print the item in reverse order such that the output would look like
00 50 50 23 40 22 02 96
Below is the input:
00 05 05 32 04 22 20 69
Video tutorial on how to use code tags in The UNIX and Linux Forums. (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a large database of words and would like them sorted in reverse order i.e. from the end up.
An example will make this clear:
I have tried to write a program in Perl which basically takes the string from the end and tries to sort from that end but it does not seem... (5 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a list of file names in a text document where each file name consists of 4 letters and 3 numbers (for example MACR119). There are 48 file names in the document (they are not in alphabetical or numerical order). I would like to reorder the list of names so that the 48th name is... (3 Replies)
I have a unix script that outputs a summary file to the mac desktop.
The file is called summary.txt
I am trying to configure such so that the summary.txt file lists the content contained within such in reverse sort order.
I have used sort -r but it does not seem to work.
I would be... (8 Replies)