I know this seems like a stupid question.
I am trying to sort an address book. Some peole have first, middle and last names, some only have first and last names.
Eg:
Bob Hope
John Bon Jovi
etc ..
I want to sort this by last name.
I was thinking of using something like sort -k $variable... (5 Replies)
file:///C:/Users/TSHEPI%7E1.LEB/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.pngATM@ubuntu:~$ cat numbers2 | sort -n | uniq -c
1
7 1
11 2
10 3
the 1st numbers are the counts from the command "uniq -c", which represent the number of occurrences of each in the file. The "sort -n"... (4 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)
I want to sort a file with a list of words, in order of most occuring words to least occurring words as well as alphabetically.
ex:
file1:
cat 3
cat 7
cat 1
dog 3
dog 5
dog 9
dog 1
ape 4
ape 2
I want the outcome to be:
file1.sorted:
dog 1 (12 Replies)
Hi!
I just want to count number of files in a directory, and write to new text file, with number of files and their name
output should look like this,,
assume that below one is a new file created by script
Number of files in directory = 25
1. a.txt
2. abc.txt
3. asd.dat... (20 Replies)
Experts
I have a list of files in the directory
mysample1
mysample2
mysample3
mysample4
mysample5
mysample6
mysample7
mysample8
mysample9
mysample10
mysample11
mysample12
mysample13
mysample14
mysample15 (4 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
In one of my script, I would like to sort the decimal numbers.
For e.g.
If I have numbers like
1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0 2.1 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.1 7.10 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9
I would like to sort them
1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0 2.1 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4... (3 Replies)
I have a file like the following:
/vol/release
/vol/listing
/vol/trees7
/vol/toperforce
/vol/trees10
/vol/trees2
/vol/wtrain
I have tried the following:
cat file | sort -t/ -dfk3.1 -t/ -k3.6n
That did not work. What I want to do is have the file sorted so that the first... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am looking for a way to sort the output below from the "Inuse" count from Highest to Lowest. Is it possible?
Thanks in advance.
user1 0.12 0.06 0 0.12
User Inuse Pin Pgsp Virtual
Unit:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jaapar
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sort
SORT(1) User Commands SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort lines of text files
SYNOPSIS
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options:
-b, --ignore-leading-blanks
ignore leading blanks
-d, --dictionary-order
consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
-f, --ignore-case
fold lower case to upper case characters
-g, --general-numeric-sort
compare according to general numerical value
-i, --ignore-nonprinting
consider only printable characters
-M, --month-sort
compare (unknown) < `JAN' < ... < `DEC'
-n, --numeric-sort
compare according to string numerical value
-r, --reverse
reverse the result of comparisons
Other options:
-c, --check
check whether input is sorted; do not sort
-k, --key=POS1[,POS2]
start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1)
-m, --merge
merge already sorted files; do not sort
-o, --output=FILE
write result to FILE instead of standard output
-s, --stable
stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
-S, --buffer-size=SIZE
use SIZE for main memory buffer
-t, --field-separator=SEP
use SEP instead of non-blank to blank transition
-T, --temporary-directory=DIR
use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp; multiple options specify multiple directories
-u, --unique
with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run
-z, --zero-terminated
end lines with 0 byte, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position in the field. OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering
options, which override global ordering options for that key. If no key is given, use the entire line as the key.
SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: % 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
*** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
native byte values.
AUTHOR
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for sort is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sort programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info sort
should give you access to the complete manual.
sort 5.93 November 2005 SORT(1)