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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting based on Multiple columns Post 302315518 by greenworld on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 02:31:35 PM
Old 05-12-2009
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1705614|FNP|2|99|U|1/20/2009 0:00:00
1705614|MSN|1|99|C|1/2/2009 0:00:00

I want the above data to be sorted based on 0 / 4 / 3 / 2 fields (assume above data in abc.txt file)

sort -t '|' +0n +4 +3n +2nr abc.txt
1705614|MSN|1|99|C|1/2/2009 0:00:00
1705614|FNP|2|99|U|1/20/2009 0:00:00

in case my 4 and 3 fields are same I want to sort by field 2 in descending order, that means if the data is

1705614|MSN|1|99|C|1/2/2009 0:00:00
1705614|FNP|2|99|C|1/20/2009 0:00:00

I want this to be flipped like

1705614|FNP|2|99|C|1/20/2009 0:00:00
1705614|MSN|1|99|C|1/2/2009 0:00:00

with the above sort command it doesn't work...please help
 

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