1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am attempting to sort a file using the following command: sort +0 -t"|" infilename > outfilename I am getting the following error: sort: 0653-657 A write error occurred while sorting. The file size is 15036274 bytes This is an AIX 5.2 version I believe this is a problem with the... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I tried to sort on column2 followed by column1 and notice how the "updated" value in column1 is not sorted correctly! Can you tell me if i have the sort statement setup correctly please, thanks much! sort -t "|" -k2 -k1 sortin > sortout ... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

there has several numbers which are:1,2,3,45,6,7,8,9,0,10,34,34,54,122,6756,54,87,99,2,1,45; how to write a shell script orts the above numbers into descending order and puts them into and arrray and also find and prints the minimum and maximum of those numbers, and finds and prints the average... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have file (srv_lst) with the contents as ... 9.2 IRMD115 8.1 IRMD115 and I am using the sort as to get the bigger version as : sort -r -u +1 $srv_lst | sort -k 1,1r and the output is 9.2 which is good .. if I have the contents of file srv_lst as : 9.2 IRMD115 10.2 IRMD115 ... (4 Replies)

5. Programming

I am in need of some direction. First off I want to admit this is an assignment but I have hit a block. I need to sort, by the number of times a string occurs (count), and output the top 10. I have found what number gives me the top 10 so from there I need to know how to sort them. Any... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, i want to sort by the (1-8) columns and (9-7) columns: my file: MARTINEZ---PAUL --DUPOND---EDDY --DURANDJACQUES --DUPOND--ALAIN output: --DUPOND--ALAIN --DUPOND---EDDY --DURANDJACQUES MARTINEZ---PAUL (6 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Apologies if this should be in 'unix for dummies' thread.. I have a large file containing records like this: 16 Feb 02:49 s_A123_ctas_log.20100216024000.bin 26 Feb 02:55 s_B123_ctas_log.20100226024000.bin 05 Mar 05:22 s_A127_ctas_log.20100305024000.bin I want to sort it by column 4... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a large file with number of records in there. I need some help to find only first row based on a key and ignore other rows with the same key. I tried few things but file is huge(30 million rows). So need some solution that is very efficient. e.g Junk|Apple|7|Random|data|here...... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a file having content: 123 123 1234 12131 121 23 1212 1212121 23421 1212 1213123 I want to remove the repeated lines from it, i.e. I just want the any number just one time without any sorting in it. The problem is that I am not getting result from 'uniq' command. as... (2 Replies)