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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sort the last names Post 302452767 by sonu_pal on Monday 13th of September 2010 03:42:19 AM
Old 09-13-2010
i have a input file naming lookup.txt and the data is :

Code:
sonu pal:9897933005:pimpri:19/05/1988:15000
vijay aggarwal:9897933006:akurdi:19/05/1987:20000
ajay singh:9897933007:dapodi:19/05/1986:25000
mahesh rana:9006752312:chinchwad:21/09/1976:50000


and the expected o/p must be like this :


Code:
vijay aggarwal:9897933006:akurdi:19/05/1987:20000
sonu pal:9897933005:pimpri:19/05/1988:15000
mahesh rana:9006752312:chinchwad:21/09/1976:50000
ajay singh:9897933007:dapodi:19/05/1986:25000


the number of entries in a line = 5
total number of entries in a file = 20

Last edited by pludi; 09-13-2010 at 04:51 AM..
 

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Xmark(1)						      General Commands Manual							  Xmark(1)

NAME
Xmark - summarize x11perf results SYNTAX
Xmark datafile DESCRIPTION
Xmark is a shell script that reads the indicated datafile and compiles a benchmark which it writes to standard output. It writes three numbers: A weighted performance number for the x11perf results. A weighted performance number for a standard SparcStation 1, with SunOS 4.1.2, X11R5 Xsun, and a CG3 dumb Color Frame Buffer. The Xmark, which is the ratio of the two numbers above. The datafile must be an ordinary file, produced by x11perf in the following way: x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy GXxor -all > datafile It is possible to run the GXcopy and GXxor tests separately, as long as they are concatenated to the same output file: x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all > datafile x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all >> datafile or x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all > datafile x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all >> datafile FILES
temp.$$ Temporary file created in the current directory, deleted after use. DIAGNOSTICS
Usage: Xmark datafile Xmark was invoked without arguments or with more than one argument, or with options. Xmark takes no options. Error: data file does not exist or is not ordinary. Xmark cannot find the datafile named on its command line, or the datafile is a special file such as a directory. WARNING: datafile contains nnn, not 441 or 447 'trep' results; The file named on the command line does not seem to be a file generated by x11perf in the expected way. Diagnostic: ERROR: sum of weights =nnn, not equal to 4566.0; There is an internal error in Xmark. SEE ALSO
X(7), x11perf(1), x11perfcomp(1) XFree86 Version 4.7.0 Xmark(1)
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