There are some "sort" intrinsics to be considered and i think you haven't covered them all yet. This might not have any impact on your test file, but may well change the sorting order in another sample.
Lets see:
The default behavior of "sort" is to sort from the field/position given in te argument to the "-k" option to the end of line. That means:
will sort on field 2 first, in case f2 is equal on field 3, if this is equal too on field 4, etc. to the end of line. As you want to search on a last name - first name basis you have to state that:
You are lucky that you use only full fields, because it is possible to base sorting order on a sub-field starting at the n-th character of a certain field. Alas, character-numbering is sometimes 1-based and sometimes zero-based, depending on "-t" or "-b" being used - as i learned myself recently the hard way.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
Very close... According to the standards (and the sort utilities I've used tend to follow the standards pretty closely), what you said about sort -k 2 is exactly correct. But, sort -k 2,2 sorts on the 2nd field and if two or more lines compare equal on that field, the entire line is used as the secondary sort key. So sort -k 2,2 performs exactly the same sort as sort -k 2,2 -k 1,1.
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)
Hi,
I am using some codes that have been ported from unix to linux, and now the sorting no longer results in the desired ordering. I'm hoping to find a way to mimic the unix sort command in linux. The input file is structured the following:
$> cat file.txt... (6 Replies)
I am trying to sort a file . The file looks like this:
DDFF 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
DDFQ 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
DDFX 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
DDUA 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
My command:
sort -k1 /home/c153507/Bin/OPL1.txt -o /home/c153507/Bin/OPL1.txt
The results are OK except for one line where... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a text file with this following format:
w m a c G
+ V b y
+ d f e t
I'd like to sort it to a file with the following format (same number of lines, same number of fields, but all fields are sorted alphabetically)
G V a b c
+ d e f
+ m t w y
I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: roseriver
7 Replies
LEARN ABOUT MINIX
sort
SORT(1) General Commands Manual SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort a file of ASCII lines
SYNOPSIS
sort [-bcdfimnru] [-tc] [-o name] [+pos1] [-pos2] file ...
OPTIONS -b Skip leading blanks when making comparisons
-c Check to see if a file is sorted
-d Dictionary order: ignore punctuation
-f Fold upper case onto lower case
-i Ignore nonASCII characters
-m Merge presorted files
-n Numeric sort order
-o Next argument is output file
-r Reverse the sort order
-t Following character is field separator
-u Unique mode (delete duplicate lines)
EXAMPLES
sort -nr file # Sort keys numerically, reversed
sort +2 -4 file # Sort using fields 2 and 3 as key
sort +2 -t: -o out # Field separator is :
sort +.3 -.6 # Characters 3 through 5 form the key
DESCRIPTION
Sort sorts one or more files. If no files are specified, stdin is sorted. Output is written on standard output, unless -o is specified.
The options +pos1 -pos2 use only fields pos1 up to but not including pos2 as the sort key, where a field is a string of characters delim-
ited by spaces and tabs, unless a different field delimiter is specified with -t. Both pos1 and pos2 have the form m.n where m tells the
number of fields and n tells the number of characters. Either m or n may be omitted.
SEE ALSO comm(1), grep(1), uniq(1).
SORT(1)