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Old 10-30-2012
CSV Sorting on only particular columns

Hello!
So ive been presented with this comma-delimited file:
I need a print to look as below
"
lastname, phone_number, zip

for every person with a last name starting with the letter H, I

only with a 650-area code phone number. output should be sorted by reverse ZIP code "

I only have four columns

Harris, K, (650)345-1760 1200, Ellis Street Suite 230 Mountain CA 93042
Mitchell, A, (212)-555-1234 650, This Street NY NY 01234
Thomson, F, (650)-999-9999 1450, The Terrace Avenue Stratford MA 10101
irvin, h, (650)678-2445 12345, denver st santa clara 96503


I thought I was on the right path with this code:
Code:
cat data.csv | awk -F"," '{print $1, $2, $3, $4}' |sort -t ',' -k1|grep "(650)"

then to try to grep just the last name's first letter only...

Code:
cat data.csv | awk -F "," '$1~/"H*"/' '{print $1, $2, $3, $4}'

but keep getting errors.
How can I search for just the first letter as well as only part of a string in the last column and reverse order that?(I imagine with sort?)

Last edited by strangemachine; 10-30-2012 at 03:04 PM..
 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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