1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi , iam trying to sort millions of records which is delimited and i cant able to use sort command more than 60 million..if i try to do so i got an message stating that "File size limit exceeded",Is there any file size limit for using sort command.. How can i solve this problem. thanks ... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, Good day. Here i am facing some problem like below. file contains 12345 0001 090112 14385 0001 090112 13255 0001 090112 11345 0001 090112 .... I want to sort ascending according to the first column. What will be the shell script. (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have directories with name like: aaa bbb ccc ... I would like to to see which directories are the largest and then list the files within each. I have success using: du -ks * | sort -rin | head -n 20 which gives me an output like: 120 bbb 27 ccc 3 aaa ... I would like... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, My input file is $cat samp 1 siva 1 raja 2 siva 1 siva 2 raja 4 venkat i want sort this name wise...alos need to remove duplicate lines. i am using cat samp|awk '{print $2,$1}'|sort -u it showing raja 1 (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

the rows have to be sorted according to the second column (family name). In addition, the number of family names that start with a particular alphabet character is put before the beginning of the series. Assume that the file have 4 columns with the following column formatting: first name... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello , i have a text file like this 1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE 2 a2 ,WE ;TR ,YT ,WW 3 a3 ;AS ,UY ;RF ,YT i want to sort this text file based on each row , and excluding 2nd column from the sorting and not taking the comma or ; into consideration in the sorting, so it will become like this... (12 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone! As the heading reads, I would like to sort the lines of a text file, starting at a specific column (i.e. skip the first X characters of each line). What I’m actually trying to sort is the md5 sums file of a directory. Every time I copy a new file to that directory, I perform... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I have a file which have content as below. 03/09/2014 10:35 AM 618 Admin\rick pqr_ klm2_pog12_20140309_c.xlsx 03/10/2014 10:35 AM 618 user\test01 mplz_ fgh2_lal12_20140310_c.xlsx 03/17/2014 10:35 AM 618 Admin\vick abc_ xyz2_bc12_20140317_c.xlsx 03/18/2014 ... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

OS : RHEL 6.6 I want to list the files/directories sorted (Ascending or Desceding) by their size. As you can see in the below example, du command doesn't sort by size. In Linux world, is there any other command or workaround using du command to list the files/directories sorted by their... (6 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I have a csv file as shown below, xop_thy 80 avr_njk 50 str_nyu 60 avr_irt 70 str_nhj 60 avr_ngt 50 str_tgt 80 xop_nmg 50 xop_nth 40 cyv_gty 40 cop_thl 40 vir_tyk 80 vir_plo 20 vir_thk 40 ijk_yuc 70 cop_thy 70 ijk_yuc 80 irt_hgt 80 I need to align/sort the csv file based... (7 Replies)