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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort by Duration Post 302739671 by Corona688 on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 04:58:34 PM
Old 12-04-2012
You may need GNU awk for this:

Code:
# Convert ....... lines into blank lines, put in file 'newdata'
sed 's/^ *[.]* *$//' data > newdata
# Print duration record-number and sort it, put in file 'order'
awk -F"\n" -v RS="" '{ L=split($1, A, " "); print A[L-1], NR; }' newdata | sort > order

# Read the 'order' file to decide what order to print
# Read all records
# Print all records in the order given by 'order'
awk 'BEGIN {
        printf("..........................................................................................................................\n");

        while((getline <"order")>0) { O[++L]=$2 }
        RS=""
	ORS="\n        ..........................................................................................................................\n"
}
{ D[NR]=$0 }

END { for(N=1; N<=NR; N++) print D[O[N]]; }' newdata > sorted

# Remove temporary files
rm -f newdata order

 

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dpkg-awk

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NAME

       dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> ..

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-awk  Parses  a  dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records.  It can use regex on the field
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OPTIONS

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	      The file to parse.  The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.

       -d [#]
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	      Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.

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