And yes if there are two identical lines with just the timestamp being different then I'd like to keep the biggest number (newest)
No! Absolutely not! Never! If you are feeding the data through sort twice, the first sort has absolutely no effect (unless you use a -u option in the 1st sort to discard some data and you have already learned that you can't use -u in the 1st sort). The command line you're suggesting:
is functionally equivalent to:
Both sort commands sort the entire set of input lines according to the sort key specified by that sort command.
You still haven't explained why it matters what the timestamp is on lines that are otherwise identical. The commands that you had on Solaris 8 randomly kept one of the lines that matched from the start of field 2 to the end of the line. As stated before the command:
will do what would have happened on Solaris 8 with your current data. If that isn't sufficient, the first step I stated for you in message #10 in this thread can be implemented using:
but you will need to write another program that reads the data written by the above sort and throws away all but the 1st line of each set of lines that are identical from the start of field 2 to the end of the line. The program that will do this is NOT sort. It is probably an awk script that compares the substring starting at the first character of column 2 and continuing to the end of the line for adjacent lines and prints $0 for the 1st line in each matching set. (Note that this is not the same as comparing fields $2 to $NF because differences in field separators matter in the first case, but are ignored in the second case.)
Hi All,
I have a file 1.txt which has the duplicate dns entries as shown:
Name: 000f9fbc6738.net.in|Addresses: 10.241.66.169, 10.84.2.222,212.241.66.170
Name: 001371e8ed3e.net.in|Addresses: 10.241.65.153, 10.84.1.101
Name: 00e06f5bd42a.net.in|Addresses: 10.72.19.218,... (6 Replies)
My data is something like shown below.
date1 date2 aaa bbbb ccccc
date3 date4 dddd eeeeeee ffffffffff ggggg hh
I want the output like this
date1date2 aaa eeeeee
I serached in the forum but didn't find the exact matching solution. Please help. (7 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)
Hi Everybody,
I am just new to UNIX as well as to this forum. I have a text file with 10,000 coloumns and each coloumn contains values separated by space. I want to separate them into new coloumns..the file is something like this
as ad af 1 A
as ad af 1 D
...
...
1 and A are in one... (7 Replies)
Hello all -
I am to this forum and fairly new in learning unix and finding some difficulty in preparing a small shell script. I am trying to make script to sort all the files given by user as input (either the exact full name of the file or say the files matching the criteria like all files... (3 Replies)
Hi All, Need Suggestion, Want to sort a file using awk & sed to get required, output as below, such that each LUN shows correct WWPN and FA port Numbers correctly:
Required output:
01FB 10000000c97843a2 8C 0
01FB 10000000c96fb279 9C 0
22AF 10000000c97843a2 8C 0
22AF 10000000c975adbd ... (10 Replies)
Input file:
100%ABC2 3.44E-12 USA
A2M%H02579 0E0 UK
100%ABC2 5.34E-8 UK
100%ABC2 3.25E-12 USA
A2M%H02579 5E-45 UK
Output file:
100%ABC2 3.44E-12 USA
100%ABC2 3.25E-12 USA
100%ABC2 5.34E-8 UK
A2M%H02579 0E0 UK
A2M%H02579 5E-45 UK
Code try:
sort -k1,1 -g -k2 -r input.txt... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a filelist collected from another server , now want to sort the output using date/time stamp filed.
- Filed 6, 7,8 are showing the date/time/stamp.
Here is the input:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
-rw------- 1 root ... (3 Replies)
Any good way to check if code has the required output
# /sbin/sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
/sbin/sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts | grep "= 1"
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
What I can think of is above, and it... (16 Replies)
I have the below contents in a file after making the below curl call
curl ... | grep -E "state|Rno" | paste -sd',\n' | grep "Disconnected" > test
"state" : "Disconnected",, "Rno" : "5554f1d2"
"state" : "Disconnected",, "Rno" : "10587563"
"state" : "Disconnected",, "Rno" :... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vaibhav H
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wrap-and-sort
WRAP-AND-SORT(1) General Commands Manual WRAP-AND-SORT(1)NAME
wrap-and-sort - wrap long lines and sort items in Debian packaging files
SYNOPSIS
wrap-and-sort [options]
DESCRIPTION
wrap-and-sort wraps the package lists in Debian control files. By default the lists will only split into multiple lines if the entries are
longer than 80 characters. wrap-and-sort sorts the package lists in Debian control files and all .install files. Beside that wrap-and-sort
removes trailing spaces in these files.
This script should be run in the root of a Debian package tree. It searches for control, control.in, copyright, copyright.in, install, and
*.install in the debian directory.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
-a, --wrap-always
Wrap all package lists in the Debian control file even if the entries are shorter than 80 characters and could fit in one line line.
-s, --short-indent
Only indent wrapped lines by one space (default is in-line with the field name).
-b, --sort-binary-packages
Sort binary package paragraphs by name.
-k, --keep-first
When sorting binary package paragraphs, leave the first one at the top. Unqualified debhelper(7) configuration files are applied to
the first package.
-n, --no-cleanup
Do not remove trailing whitespaces.
-d path, --debian-directory=path
Location of the debian directory (default: ./debian).
-f file, --file=file
Wrap and sort only the specified file. You can specify this parameter multiple times. All supported files will be processed if no
files are specified.
-v, --verbose
Print all files that are touched.
AUTHORS
wrap-and-sort and this manpage have been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
Both are released under the ISC license.
DEBIAN Debian Utilities WRAP-AND-SORT(1)