11-01-2012
Sorting by length
Hello,
I have a very large file: a dictionary of headwords of around 40000 and would like to have the dictionary sorted by its length i.e. the largest string first and the smallest at the end.
I have hunted for a perl or awk script on the forum which can do the job but there is none available.
I am a newbie to Perl and more accustomed to C programming. The C program I wrote takes ages and I believe Perl or Awk are blazing fast.
Could anybody provide me with a script and if possible help me out by useful comments so that I can start off writing scripts on my own.
Many thanks for your kind help
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WAEI(1) General Commands Manual WAEI(1)
NAME
waei - Japanese-English dictionary
SYNOPSIS
waei [options] pattern...
DESCRIPTION
A dictionary program for Japanese-English translation.
This is the console version of gwaei.
OPTIONS
-n, --ncurses
Open up the multisearch window
-e, --exact
Do not display less relevant results
-d, --dictionary name
Search using a chosen dictionary
-l, --list
Show available dictionaries for searches/install/uninstall
-i, --install dictionary
Install dictionary
-u, --uninstall dictionary
Uninstall dictionary
-v, --version
Check the waei version info
-q, --quiet
Display less information
-c, --color
Display results with color
-h, --help
Display help
SEE ALSO
gwaei(1)
AUTHOR
gwaei was written by Zachary Dovel <pizzach@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Asumu Takikawa <asumu@simplyrobot.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
July 13, 2009 WAEI(1)