But as I didn't know what OS you were running, this might not work. It would have been helpful to know that from the beginning. (when you post to UNIX forums, we make some assumptions about your OS, and as awk, paste, cut, etc. are quite generic, we assume you have them).
Hi,
I want a list of entries in 3 space delimited columns. I want to sort entries based on the very first column. Rows can't be changed. For example:
If I have...
Abc Abc Acc
Bca Bda Bdd
Cab Cab Cbc
Dbc Dca Dda
Abc Abc Acc
the output should be...
Abc Abc Acc
Abc Abc Acc
Bca... (7 Replies)
Hi ,
I need to sort a file based on multiple columns All the columns are of varchar type
can any one give me the command to sort for varchar columns?
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi,
We have a requirement of need to sort a file based on fields 1,3 and 4. I tried with sort command however it is not giving expected output, can we achieve any other way? Please let me know ASAP.
File
a e w a
a b a a
a a d g
a a h h
c d a e
a a a w
Output
a b a a
a a a w
a a d... (4 Replies)
I have a space delimited text file that I would like to sort by multiple columns. First I want to sort by column 1, then by column 2. Both columns are numerical. Thanks! (1 Reply)
i have a file with two columns, and i want to uniquely sort the values in fist column and add the corresponding values in the second columns
eg
file a contents
tom 200
john 300
sow 500
tom 800
james 50
sow 300
output shpould be in file b as
tom 1000
john 300
sow 800
james 50 (0 Replies)
Hi
I have a text file that has four columns (Logonid,First Name,Last Name,Status)
Logonid First Name Last Name Status
abc2 Fred Mercury Inactive
abc1 John Deacon Active
abc3 Roger Taylor Active
abc4 Brian ... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I am using printf to print the sorted o/p in my script.I am trying to sort in following way but doesn't work.
printf "%13s %2s UDP %15s:%s Program %4s HD: %23s HD: %23s %10s %s %s %3s days %3s hours\n" $encoder $i "${ipaddr}" ${portno} ${progno} ${inres} ${outres} ${inrate}... (4 Replies)
Hello!
So ive been presented with this comma-delimited file:
I need a print to look as below
"
lastname, phone_number, zip
for every person with a last name starting with the letter H, I
only with a 650-area code phone number. output should be sorted by reverse ZIP code "
I only have... (5 Replies)
Dear all,
I need your help to sort out a file with more then 15, 000 rows,
input file has following format :
AT4560 GO:1289GO:8915GO:9243GO:5739GO:6757GO:9245GO:9507output should be like:
AT4560 GO:1289
AT4560 GO:8915
AT4560 GO:9243
AT4560 GO:5739
AT4560 GO:6757
AT4560 GO:9245... (5 Replies)
Hi, I have a tab delimited columnar file where I want to remove lines wherever two particular columns match. so for this file, I want to toss the lines where columns 1 and 2 match:
a a 1 3
a b 2 4
b b 3 5
because there are matches column 1 and 2 in lines 1 and 3, I would like a script to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mikey11415
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
comm
comm(1) User Commands comm(1)NAME
comm - select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which must be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produces three text columns as output:
lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the current locale, the lines written will be in the collating
sequence of the original lines. If not, the results are unspecified.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-1 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file1.
-2 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file2.
-3 Suppresses the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file1 A path name of the first file to be compared. If file1 is -, the standard input is used.
file2 A path name of the second file to be compared. If file2 is -, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of comm when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Printing a list of utilities specified by files
If file1, file2, and file3 each contain a sorted list of utilities, the command
example% comm -23 file1 file2 | comm -23 - file3
prints a list of utilities in file1 not specified by either of the other files. The entry:
example% comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3
prints a list of utilities specified by all three files. And the entry:
example% comm -12 file2 file3 | comm -23 -file1
prints a list of utilities specified by both file2 and file3, but not specified in file1.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of comm: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All input files were successfully output as specified.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 3 Mar 2004 comm(1)