1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, First time poster. I have a text file that as many entries like below (single line): egrep RspTime conlb.txt |more S(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5050:UP) Hits(13358983, 2/sec, P) ATr(2) Mbps(0.07) BWlmt(0 kbits) RspTime(16.50 ms) ... I am trying to sort on the RspTime from highest to lowest... (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to sort a large ascii file. Primary sort on the 1st column, and secondary sort on the second column. The file consists of 10 rows of header text and then thousands of rows with 6 columns. I want to sort all of the rows by the first column and second column. As an example, here is... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all i am facing a problem in sorting command. The script depending on the sorting command works fine only if ascii sorting is done. i need to know how to find out how to perform ascii sorting. sorting is case insensitive in my file has data in the following format. AA/BB/ AAA/BB\ also... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,,, is there anyway to sort the data that I have on an ASCII file, using unix? :confused::confused::confused: Thanks (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Looking for help for sort, I learned that for sorting numbers I use: sort -n but it seems that that is not enough when you have numbers like 0.2000E+7 for example, sort -n will not worry about the E+7 part, and will just sort the numbers like 0.2000. Exapmle: cat example.txt .91000E+07... (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, i need help on sorting data. i have a file as below /home/oracle $ cat 234.txt +1234 -2356 -1001 +231 0023 -0987 +19000 65487 6 after sorting i want the output as below -2356 -1001 (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a file such as this: chr1 chr2 chr1 chr2 chr3 chr10 chr4 chr5 chrz chr1AI want to sort it, I use this command: sort -k1 -th -n testfilebut I get this output, how can I fix this? chr1 chr1 chr10 chr1A chr2 chr2 (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, Would appreciate some help on sorting numbers on a file using the sort command. I have tried this and it's not sorting properly. what am i missing? cat testing_sort 1:21 4:18 2:17 7:14 9:19 3:12 0:16 8:13 5:20 6:15 10:11 sort -t: -nk1,1 -nk2,2 testing_sort (4 Replies)

9. OS X (Apple)

Hey everybody, I'm trying to sort scientific numbers in a descending order using the command sort -gr <file>. It works fine on a Linux-Server, but doesn't on my macbook pro with OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite). I tried to sort the following: 6.38e-10 6.38e-10 1.80e-11 1.00e-10 1.48e-12 And... (9 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I have variable that contains multiple values of number and also include overpunch(i.e. # $ % etc) character so we want to replace it with numbers. here are the example: Code: 11500#.0# 28575$.5$ 527#.7# 42".2" 2794 .4 2279!.9! 1067&.7& 926#.6# 2279!.9! 885".5" 11714$.4$ 27361'.1'... (1 Reply)