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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort help on non numeric field Post 302531872 by ygemici on Saturday 18th of June 2011 10:15:23 AM
Old 06-18-2011
maybe you can try with sed and sort..
Code:
# for i in $(sed -e 's/\([^ ]*\),[^ ]*,[^ ]*/\1/' t| sort -u| sed -e ':a' -e '$!N;s/\n/ /' -e 'ta'); do sed -n "/$i/p" t; done
Bill,404404,Seattle
Jim,212121,Seattle
Jim,212121,Ohio
Scott,212277,LosAngeles
Steve,246810,Nevada

regards
ygemici
 

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