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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort by specific order? Post 302764961 by Franklin52 on Friday 1st of February 2013 07:38:14 AM
Old 02-01-2013
You can give this a try (not tested):
Code:
awk '/^d/{print 1 $0} /^s/{print 2 $0}/^a/{print 3 $0}/^p/{print 4 $0}' file | sort | awk '{print substr($0,2)}'

 

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NAME

       btrfs-debug-tree - dump Btrfs filesystem metadata into stdout.

SYNOPSIS

       btrfs-debug-tree [options] <device>

DESCRIPTION

       btrfs-debug-tree  is used to dump the whole tree of the given device.  This is maybe useful for analyzing filesystem state or inconsistence
       and has a positive educational effect on understanding the internal structure.  device is the device file where the filesystem is stored.

       Options

       -e   print detailed extents info.

       -d   print info of btrfs device and root tree dirs only.

       -r   print info of roots only.

       -b <block_num>
	    print info of the specified block only.

EXIT CODE

       btrfs-debug-tree will return 0 if no error happened.  If any problems happened, 1 will be returned.

AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

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