You have to specify a numerical sort for the second column otherwise it will get sorted alphabetically. This should do it:
With my sort you have to use a comma in the key field specification or it does not work right. Also, if you use -t' ' it seems to use single space separation instead of multispace separation and also produce incorrect result. Without -t it produces:
But you required a numerical sort on the second part of the first key. For that the first key needs to be split into an alphabetical part and a numerical part during the sort phase. A numerical sort places X at the top though, not at the bottom.
produces:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-29-2009 at 04:47 AM..
Hello, I am new in UNIX
I am looking for a instrction to sort a file by columns 6,25 and 41
this is what I tried but not getting the correct result:
sort -t= -k1.6,1.25,1.41 to_sort.txt > sorted.txt
I used -t= just to get the whole line as one field.
INVS80993596SUM994338602XX... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to know given that I have 3 columns.
Let say I have first 3 columns to do operation and these operation output is printed out each line by line using AWK and associative array.Currently in the output file, I do a sort by -r for the operation output.
The problem comes to... (1 Reply)
hi,
i have probleme to extract the columns info from file to another one;
FILE A look like :
x,inof1
y,inof1
z,info2
t,inof3
and FILE B like
x
t
w
d
z
i want to add correpondant columns (info) to each line of FILE B and sort this file by this columns. (12 Replies)
hello,
i have a table contain many columns delimited by blank.
i want to sort this table by the 2 columns and 3 one and i want to keep the first line inchanged?
how can i do using the sort command?
thanks
table like :
field1 field2 field3 field4
x y z b
t h r n
.. (4 Replies)
i want sort columns with headers based on another file headers
file1
eg: i'm having an empty file with only coumn names like
lastname firstname title expirydate stlcno status etc...
another file with same column names and some other as well but in different order...
file2
eg:firstname... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a text file that looks like this and I need a bash script to:
12:48:32 PM 002* OUT 000418
01:10:34 PM 002* ONL 000418
01:49:17 PM 001* OUT 000364
01:52:09 PM 001* ONL 000364
...
The fields are: 12-hour format time, some number, state (online, offline) and another... (2 Replies)
File will have two columns key column and second column which is pipe separated and that need to be sorted.
Below is input file.
1, D|B|A|C
2, C|A|B
3, E|A|F|G|H|D|B|C
4, A|B|D|C|F
Output should be
1, A|B|C|D
2, A|B|C
3, A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H
4, A|B|D|C|F (11 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a HTMl file with 10 columns.
I found a script online that can sort any single column in a HTML file.
But, I would like to sort on multiple columns at once.
Could you please show some pointers?
Thanks (6 Replies)
Dear all,
I am trying to sort a text file based on column 3, 10, 11 and 12. But certain column are blank for some lines. Column 3 has to be in ascending order after sorting.
Part of my input file is as follows:
CN727990 1 A01 4703 5083 73.28 - A_scaffold000011 4365605 4365985 73.28 +... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I have 4 files in below format. I took them as an example.
File 1: Cut from position 1-4 then 6-7 then 8-14 then rest left and make them as columns in one new file. Inserting character H to the initial of all line like HCTOT.
CTOT 456787897 Low fever
CTOR 556712345 High fever... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mannu2525
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text2ps
TEXT2PS(L) TEXT2PS(L)
NAME
text2ps - convert text files to PostScript
SYNOPSIS
text2ps [ options ] [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
Text2ps reads the input files (standard input if none are specified) and produces PostScript code which, when fed to a PostScript printer,
will print the files. With text2ps it is possible to select any font, point size and number of columns. Options and files can be inter-
mixed on the command line. Options are effective for all following files until they are overridden.
Options
Here follows a list of options that text2ps recognizes. Most numeric arguments are significant to one decimal place. Options are evalu-
ated from left to right. Later options override earlier ones.
-# n Print n copies of each page. (Default 1.)
-c n Print in n columns. (Default 1.)
-f font
Print using font font. (Default Courier.)
-p n Print with point size n. (Default 9.)
-v n Use a vertical spacing of n points. If the vertical spacing is set to 0, the spacing will be 1.2 times the point size. (Default
0.)
-l n Print n lines per column. When the line count is 0, print as many lines as will fit. (Default 0.)
-r [p|l]
Set the orientation to either portrait mode (p) or landscape mode (l). (Default p.)
-b [+|-]
Set page break mode. An argument + will force new files to be always printed on a new page (this is the default). After - new
files will be put on the same page if there are still empty columns and the number of columns, the orientation or the number of
copies didn't change. New files always start new columns. (Default -.)
-mt n The top margin is n points. (Default 63.)
-mb n The bottom margin is n points. (Default 63.)
-ml n The left margin is n points. (Default 59.)
-mr n The right margin is n points. (Default 59.)
-mg n The inter-column gap is n points. (Default 25.)
-t [+|-]
If the argument is + the name of the file being printed will be printed on each page. If the argument is - the file name will not
be printed. -t + implies -b +.
-T text
Print text as title on each page. This implies -t - and -b +. This option can be switched off by specifying -t - or -t +.
(Default no title.)
-F font
Set the title font to font. (Default Helvetica.)
-P n Set the title point size to n. (Default 12.)
-B n Draw borders around each page. The number n specifies how to draw borders. N can have any of the following values or-ed in:
1 Draw a line along the left of the page.
2 Draw a line along the bottom of the page.
4 Draw a line along the right of the page.
8 Draw a line along the top of the page.
16 Draw a line between columns. This line does not connect to the lines along the top or bottom.
32 Draw a connecting line between the line between columns and the line along the top.
64 Draw a connecting line between the line between columns and the line along the bottom.
When n is 0, no border lines are drawn. (Default no bordering lines.)
-w n Tab stops are set every n spaces. Set the width of the TAB character. (Default 8.)
-1 Sets up options to print in one column in portrait mode with the Courier font, so that you get 66 lines on a page. Equivalent to
specifying the options -c 1 -f Courier -p 9 -v 0 -r p -l 0 -mt 63 -mb 63 -ml 59 -mr 59.
This is the default.
-2 Sets up options to print in two columns in landscape mode with the Courier font, so that you get two 66-line columns on a page.
Equivalent to specifying the options -c 2 -f Courier -p 6 -v 0 -r l -l 0 -mt 63 -mb 63 -ml 59 -mr 59 -mg 25. Together with the -1
option, this is probably the most useful option.
The name - means standard input.
BUGS
Too many options.
There is no way to specify where the title will be placed.
If the font being used is not a constant width font and there are other characters than just tabs and spaces in front of a tab, the next
character may not align properly.
TEXT2PS(L)