-n is an option for numeric sort..+0, -1 etc indicates the columns- sort keys.
Multiple sort keys may be used on the same command line. If two lines have the same value in the same field, sort uses the next set of sort keys to resolve the equal comparison.
means to sort based on field 1 (+0 -1). If two lines have the same value in field 1, sort those two lines based on field 2 (+1 -2).
I have a large csv file that looks like this:
14 ,M0081,+000000001,200302,+00000100500,
14 ,M0081,+000000004,200301,+00000100500,
14 ,M0081,+000000005,200305,+00000100500,
14 ,M0081,+000000000,200205,+00000100500,
14 ,M0081,+000000008,200204,+00000100500,
... (2 Replies)
Hi I have following fixed width file and I have to sort on 2 fields
ABC 111222333002555 77788
ABC 111222333004555 77788
ABC 111222333001555 77788
ABC 111222333003555 77788
ABC 111222333005555 77788
one is from field1 to field 3 "ABC" and another is on 14 to 16 "002" (based on first... (1 Reply)
Hello. I've read a few threads on how to sort on multiple fields, but I still can't get my file to sort correctly.
I have a comma delimited .csv file will over a hundred fields. I want to sort it by field 2, field 62 and then field 61 (integer fields).
input looks like this well swap field... (2 Replies)
hello all
I have a file names xxx with data like
1,2,3,12
1,3,6,12
1,3,5,12
2,4,6,12
6,5,6,12
4,2,7,12
4,1,3,12
I wish to sort this file xxx on first three fields in ascending order.
OUPUT should be like
1,2,3,12
1,3,5,12
1,3,6,12
2,4,6,12 (4 Replies)
Hi I would like to sort a csv file. It has 50 fields and approx 1400000 lines. I want to sort by three columns as follows. Say sort on coulmn 5, if entries are equal sort on column 3 if this is also equal sort on column 6.
It seems that this is possible for 5 then 3 i.e.
sort -t "," -k 5,5 -k... (1 Reply)
Hey,
I have a file i want to sort. It contains these kind of lines:
FirstName LastName buyID buyType
Eg:
John Doe 22 Car
Jane Simpson 4 Headset
John Doe 11 Telephone
Now if I use the sort command on it
cat purchases.txt | sort -k1,1 -k2,2
it would also sort the third and 4th field:... (4 Replies)
hi,
i'm having a file stg_ff.txt
which contains 10 fields,which contains millions of records
i need to cat the first 10 rows in the file after doing a sorting on the first two fields i n the file.
can any body help me on this.
regards
Angel (4 Replies)
Please advice in this.
Input file
100,vvvt
201,unb
100,sos
301,abc
99,gang
desired output
99,gang
100,vvvt
100,sos
201,unb
301,abc
Means if first fields are same ( here 100) the do not sort. (4 Replies)
i need to sort to get all the unique records based on the 1st and 2nd column, and keep the record with the highest value on 5th column if there are duplicates, every column with varies length
a^2^x^y^z
bxc^2xx2^aa^bvxxxx^cdd
a^3^1^2^3
a^2^x^1^c
I want a result which will only keep the 1st... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a file as below
<field1> <field2> <field3> ... <field_num1> <field_num2>
Trying to sort based on difference of <field_num1> and <field_num2> in desceding order and print all fields.
I tried this and it doesn't sort on the difference field .. Appreciate your help.
cat... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: newstart
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
sort
SORT(1) General Commands Manual SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort a file of ASCII lines
SYNOPSIS
sort [-bcdfimnru] [-tc] [-o name] [+pos1] [-pos2] file ...
OPTIONS -b Skip leading blanks when making comparisons
-c Check to see if a file is sorted
-d Dictionary order: ignore punctuation
-f Fold upper case onto lower case
-i Ignore nonASCII characters
-m Merge presorted files
-n Numeric sort order
-o Next argument is output file
-r Reverse the sort order
-t Following character is field separator
-u Unique mode (delete duplicate lines)
EXAMPLES
sort -nr file # Sort keys numerically, reversed
sort +2 -4 file # Sort using fields 2 and 3 as key
sort +2 -t: -o out # Field separator is :
sort +.3 -.6 # Characters 3 through 5 form the key
DESCRIPTION
Sort sorts one or more files. If no files are specified, stdin is sorted. Output is written on standard output, unless -o is specified.
The options +pos1 -pos2 use only fields pos1 up to but not including pos2 as the sort key, where a field is a string of characters delim-
ited by spaces and tabs, unless a different field delimiter is specified with -t. Both pos1 and pos2 have the form m.n where m tells the
number of fields and n tells the number of characters. Either m or n may be omitted.
SEE ALSO comm(1), grep(1), uniq(1).
SORT(1)