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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting on last field Post 302302615 by joeyg on Tuesday 31st of March 2009 12:28:39 PM
Old 03-31-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver Here is one thouht

Code:
> cat file7
Tan\da\1223
hey\1234
two\three\think\4579
stuff\this\20566
those\12

> cat file7 | awk '{FS="\\" ; $0=$0 ; print $NF"|"$0}' | sort -n | cut -d"|" -f2
those\12
Tan\da\1223
hey\1234
two\three\think\4579
stuff\this\20566

 

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