Could you be more precise wrt the type of sorting you're aiming for the first column? Do you want a simple sort like:
Or are you aiming for that type of sort wrt the 2 columns? :
IF you're aiming for a mix of both, I suggest you cut, sort and then simply join the two...
Hello, I am new in UNIX
I am looking for a instrction to sort a file by columns 6,25 and 41
this is what I tried but not getting the correct result:
sort -t= -k1.6,1.25,1.41 to_sort.txt > sorted.txt
I used -t= just to get the whole line as one field.
INVS80993596SUM994338602XX... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to know given that I have 3 columns.
Let say I have first 3 columns to do operation and these operation output is printed out each line by line using AWK and associative array.Currently in the output file, I do a sort by -r for the operation output.
The problem comes to... (1 Reply)
hello..
I have big file and so far I was able to shink it and make smaller with certains values that I need..
vendor1|2000|1
vendor2|1000|1
vendor2|5000|1
vendor2|500|2
vendor3|1000|2
vendor3|500|3
vendor4|500|3
Vendor5|500|1
vendor6|500|3
Vendor7|1000|1
Vendor8|1000|774... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Is there any way to sort a file in cshell by sort command, sorting it by multiple fields, like to sort it first by the second column and then by the first column.
Thanks forhead (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a text file that looks like this and I need a bash script to:
12:48:32 PM 002* OUT 000418
01:10:34 PM 002* ONL 000418
01:49:17 PM 001* OUT 000364
01:52:09 PM 001* ONL 000364
...
The fields are: 12-hour format time, some number, state (online, offline) and another... (2 Replies)
Howdy!
Need to sort a large .txt file containing the following, using sort. First based on the 1st column, and then on the 2nd column:
Group01.01 1000500 31 0.913 -1.522974494
Group01.01 1001500 16 0.684 -0.967496041
Group01.01 36500 19 0.476 na
Group01.02 365500 15 0.400 na... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to sort a list in different ways:
1> Unique based on Field 1 with highest Field 4
For Instance Input:
1678923450;11112222333344;11-1x;2_File.xml
1678923450;11112222333344;11-1x;5_File.xml
1234567890;11113333222244;11-1x;3_File.xml
Output:
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New to unix.
I need to sort the records of a file by a control number field. That field is in POS 16 through 28. How do I do that? There are no delimiters, or spaces to separate fields.
See example below. Each line is a record.
REC1CCYYMMDD0018888888888888ABCDE... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have one requirement, where I need to have output of ls -l command sorted on 1) first on filename 2) last modified time ( descending ) - latest change first.
I am not able to figure out how to do it..
Also I dont have a way to change Date display for ls -ltr command..
I am... (1 Reply)