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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH: Sort four lines based on first line Post 302556301 by SilversleevesX on Saturday 17th of September 2011 11:16:03 PM
Old 09-18-2011
BASH: Sort four lines based on first line
I am in the process of sorting an AutoHotkey script's contents so as to make it easier for me to find and view its nearly 200 buzzwords (when I forget which one corresponds with what phrase, which I do now and then).

About half to two-thirds of the script's key phrases correspond to locations (see example data). These are the ones I've been trying to sort first.

My data looks like this:
Code:
;Canyon
::grand::
Send, Canyon
Exit

;Elevator
::lift::
Send, Elevator
Exit

;Office
::9to5::
Send, Office
Exit

;Cabin
::log::
Send, Cabin
Exit

;Desert
::sahara::
Send, Desert
Exit

;Front door
::welcome::
Send, Front door

In order for this data to work in the AHK script once it's sorted, it has to remain multi-line. I admit I'm somewhat bummed because the sort command works line-by-line and is not appropriate for what I want to do.

So what would be a good method for sorting just these groups of 4 lines (for example), by the first line in each one, as they stand?

BZT
 

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MEMBERS(1)						      General Commands Manual							MEMBERS(1)

NAME

       members - outputs members of a group

SYNOPSIS

       members groupname

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the members commands.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

       members is a program that sends a space-separated list of secondary member names to its standard output.

OPTIONS

       The  programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

       -a, --all
	      Show all group members on one line. This is the default.

       -p, --primary
	      Show only primary group members.

       -s, --secondary
	      Show only secondary group members.

       -t, --two-lines
	      Send two lines to standard output. First line is primary members, second line is secondary members. NOTE: This always  displays  two
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BUGS

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SEE ALSO

       groups(1)

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