Is there or is there not a space before the numeric sequence begins? jim's solution won't give you a numerical sort in either case, but elixir's will if there is no space.
Is >string actually present in your input data or are you using it as a placeholder for some other, possibly varying, text? Is data always a single line?
If you are simplifying the problem, don't. Instead, paste a sample of actual data which includes as many special cases as you can think of.
Regards,
Alister
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If the sample data in your first post is faithful to your real data, the following will work:
Replace <tab> with a literal tab character (at the terminal, usually control-v then tab key). A newline must immediately follow the backslash at the end of the line.
If it only needs to run on a GNU system (Linux, typically):
Regards,
Alister
I appreciate all the help that I've already received but am running into one problem. I can find how to add something before a file with ascending numbers but not like this. I basically have a file that looks like this:
100
101
102
103
104
I need to add the following before each line with... (5 Replies)
Hello Friends,
I want to merge two files in ascending order on the first field. And if the first field matches sort on 3rd field i.e, TXADDR should come ahead of RXADDR .
file1
9 : TXADDR : 00000000
65 : TXDATA 0000000000000011
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How can I check if array is in ascending order?
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Done it now (0 Replies)
I want to sort values of a hash in ascending order.
my %records;
for my $value (sort values %records){print $value,"\n";}
When I use the above code I get values in this order: 1,10,11,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. But, I need values in my output in this order: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.
Can Someone... (1 Reply)
I have a multiple file with the following name
like.
file_0.csv
file_1.csv
file_2.csv
file_3.csv
file_4.csv
file_5.csv
file_6.csv
file_7.csv
file_7.csv
file_8.csv
file_9.csv
file_10.csv
file_11.csv
file_12.csv
file_13.csv
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Hi,
I have a sequence which has 30000 strings which looks like this
>string2991 234445
>string224 470561
>string121 675386
>string4098 177229
>string8049 255838
>string8 672382
>string1115 578415
I want it to be arranged in ascending order
>string8 672382
>string121... (5 Replies)
HI
I have a file
# vi assc
values order fin
100 34 45
200 12 64
120 10 23
Here I need to check whether the values of second column"order"
is arranged ascendingly
Note: Always order column will be arranged either in ascending or descending order
How to make it?... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to list files in ascending order. Filenames are in format inpTDT_1, inpTDT_2, inpTDT_3 and so on.
I want to list them in the ascending order based on the digit after underscore and send the output to a file.
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Hi All
I have a file like this:
ID1 ref_A 10 ref_B 30 ref_C 5
ID2 ref_F 69 ref_G 12 ref_H 5
Every ID is followed by a string(ref_X) followed by a number(every number is referred to the previous ref)
I would like to order the file like this(the column could be more, but always with the same... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD