Here is an alternate solution. The utility msort has an interesting sort-field key called a hybrid. Essentially, it breaks apart a key-field into sub-fields. It then sorts the sub-fields as character unless the field is numeric, in which case it sorts as a numeric. The header and trailer lines in this data file have no second field, so a pair of perl scripts adds the field to request and response lines, and removes the second field after the hybrid sort. So for the perl add action, the lines would become:
ready for input into msort.
producing:
Files f1 and f2 show the intermediate form of the data and can be discarded for production work.
See the link in the script for msort if it is not in an accessible repository. Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD have it, for example.
Hi,
I need help to sort a file contents.
I am using sort -r option to basically reverse the comparison in descending order. However, i found out that my file is not sorted according, can anyone please help.
My data is something like:-
Hello world
20.982342864 343
19.234355545 222... (5 Replies)
Hey guys, I have a file that contains the following:
366 K
364 Q
12 UB
7 INC. P
4 Law
2 LAMB
2 High
1 QEG
1 OF
1 LC
1 B
As you can see, it's already sorted by numerical order, how do I sort it again, breaking the ties by using the alphabetical order of the second column, but... (2 Replies)
Hi to all.
I'm trying to sort this with the Unix command sort.
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1
I need to get this:
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2... (7 Replies)
Hello,
okey so my script is using 4 variables that are either empty or numbers in the following format:
NUMBER_1 NUMBER_2 NUMBER_3 NUMBER_4
So they're basically separated by a space and I need to echo the lowest number, so far I've been doing it like this:
echo "2 3 1 3" | tr " "... (6 Replies)
I would like to know how to sort version numbers, using bash or perl. I would like to sort file names that are program names with version numbers and extensions, such as hello-0.2.3.tar.gz and hello-0.10.3.tar.gz.
Version numbers of computer programs do not comply with the mathematical rule... (3 Replies)
I have files like this:
1
3
4
6
14
3
6
I want to extract the highest number. I have tried using
cat filename | sort
but then 9 would become higher than 14.
So how do I sort? (1 Reply)
Experts, how to sort this fields with numerical order :
-How to use the sort command in this case, I was thinking with -k but it is not working,
lan5000
lan5000:1
lan5000:10
lan5000:11
lan5000:12
lan5000:13
lan5000:14
lan5000:15
lan5000:16
lan5000:17 ... (6 Replies)
Hello All,
I was wondering if someone might know how to do this. I have a word list that is format like the example below. I need to take away the :number after that... is there some kind of command I could use to remove them?
123456:5562
password:1507
123456789:989
qwerty:877... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am having contents in a file like below,
cat testfile
rpool/swap
rpool/swap14
rpool/swap2
rpool/swap3
I want to sort the above contents like,
rpool/swap
rpool/swap2
rpool/swap3
rpool/swap14
I have tried in this way, (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sumanthsv
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sort
SORT(1) User Commands SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort lines of text files
SYNOPSIS
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.
Ordering options:
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --ignore-leading-blanks ignore leading blanks
-d, --dictionary-order
consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
-f, --ignore-case
fold lower case to upper case characters
-g, --general-numeric-sort
compare according to general numerical value
-i, --ignore-nonprinting
consider only printable characters
-M, --month-sort
compare (unknown) < `JAN' < ... < `DEC'
-n, --numeric-sort
compare according to string numerical value
-r, --reverse
reverse the result of comparisons
Other options:
-c, --check
check whether input is sorted; do not sort
-k, --key=POS1[,POS2]
start a key at POS1, end it at POS 2 (origin 1)
-m, --merge
merge already sorted files; do not sort
-o, --output=FILE
write result to FILE instead of standard output
-s, --stable
stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
-S, --buffer-size=SIZE
use SIZE for main memory buffer
-t, --field-separator=SEP use SEP instead of non- to whitespace transition
-T, --temporary-directory=DIR
use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp multiple options specify multiple directories
-u, --unique
with -c: check for strict ordering
otherwise: output only the first of an equal run
-z, --zero-terminated
end lines with 0 byte, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position in the field. OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering
options, which override global ordering options for that key. If no key is given, use the entire line as the key.
SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: % 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
native byte values.
AUTHOR
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for sort is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sort programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info sort
should give you access to the complete manual.
sort (coreutils) 4.5.3 October 2002 SORT(1)