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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort by numbers, then alphabetically Post 302405940 by alister on Saturday 20th of March 2010 09:03:10 PM
Old 03-20-2010
Hello, Andrew9191:

For future reference, it's best to give a sample of the desired output as well. As I understand it, you want the first column compared numericallly and sorted in reverse order and lines that compare equal in that sense are to then be sorted in increasing order alphabetically. The following sort command accomplishes this:
Code:
$ sort -k1,1nr -k2 data
366 K
364 Q
12 UB
7 INC. P
4 Law
2 High
2 LAMB
1 B
1 LC
1 OF
1 QEG

Regards,
Alister
 

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NM(1)							      General Commands Manual							     NM(1)

NAME
nm - print name list SYNOPSIS
nm [-dgnopru] [file] ... OPTIONS
-d Print the offsets in decimal instead of in hex -g Print only external symbols -n Sort numerically rather than alphabetically -o Prepend file name to each line rather than only once -p Do not sort, print in symbol-table order -r Sort in reverse order -u Print only undefined symbols EXAMPLES
nm -n a.out # Print all symbols in numerical order nm -dg a.out # Print globals alphabetically in decimal DESCRIPTION
Nm prints the symbol table of executable files when it is available. If no file is given, the symbols in a.out are used. The format of the table is somewhat compatible with the one produced by asld when used with the -s option. The symbol table can be added with ast. Assembly language files do not have symbol tables. SEE ALSO
anm(1), asize(1), ar(1), size(1). NM(1)
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