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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Trying to sort words and numbers associated with them. Post 302507078 by maq on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 05:26:41 PM
Old 03-22-2011
Trying to sort words and numbers associated with them.

Hi. I have a file containing words and numbers associated with them as follows -
Code:
c 2
b 5
c 5
b 6
a 10
b 16
c 18
a 19
b 21
c 27
a 28
b 33
a 76
a 115
c 199
c 251
a 567
a 1909

I want to sort them so that I get something like
Code:
a 10
a 19
a 28
a 76
a 115
a 567
a 1909
b 5
b 6
b 16
b 21
b 33
c 2
c 5
c 18
c 27
c 199
c 251

So you observe that each word is listed in the alphabetical order. At the same time, the numbers for each word also follow in the numerical order. I tried using Unix sort, but unix sort gives a problem for entries like
Code:
a 10
a 115
a 19

Here, the "correct" order should be
Code:
a 10
a 19
a 115

How is it possible to achieve this? Someone please help me.

Last edited by Franklin52; 03-23-2011 at 04:56 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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