10-11-2012
IMO: your idea lacks merit.
You should simply insert the data into a db with a loader, then produce output. If you have Excel you have MS office and probably a db like Access. UNIX has free db's: mysql, Berekely db, etc.
So, Why does your idea look like reinventing the wheel?
The reason is that Don Cragun is right. You have to have complete metadata for each and every column to be able to sort based on arbitrary column selections. And there is too much metadata to cobble together anything useful in shell. Metadata can change. db's are meant for that contingency.
The way it is now, you have to know what you are sorting by looking at it - in effect gathering metadata. You have to use human intelligence to make decisions. Then use unix sort/Excel sort. Databases are meant to do this. You just tell db's to sort on column names, optionally: ascending or descending for each column. You can write database scripts (SQL language for example) to do stats or a lot of what you already can do in Excel.
So, stay in Excel or move to a db. I vote for a db.
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