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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH: Sort four lines based on first line Post 302556412 by agama on Sunday 18th of September 2011 11:59:11 AM
Old 09-18-2011
I completely missed that the send, was being placed on its own line in the output!! Initially I was using spaces to separate the fields and realised that there were embedded spaces and when I converted to pipes I added an unnecessary vertical bar. The 'source' file should be something like:

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|Exit|

Where the vertical bar after Send, is removed.

I generated the first set of output using the above input and this command:

Code:
sort input-source | awk -v RS="|" '1'

To run with your current file, this should work:

Code:
awk 'NF < 1 {next;} { x=x $0 "|"; } /Exit/ { print x; x="" }' input-file | sort  | awk -v RS="|" '1'

I just recut/pasted your sample data (to be sure I hadn't buggered something up along the way) and ran it through the above pipeline; it generated:

Code:
;Cabin
::log::
Send, Cabin
Exit

;Canyon
::grand::
Send, Canyon
Exit

;Desert
::sahara::
Send, Desert
Exit

;Elevator
::lift::
Send, Elevator
Exit

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

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

I did add a final Exit -- I hope that there is one, otherwise things might not work quite right.

Hope this helps.
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