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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to sort lines according words? Post 302886097 by RudiC on Wednesday 29th of January 2014 04:30:32 PM
Old 01-29-2014
In the sample you posted there's no TAB, and it is not mentioned in the specification. The latter neither said there's spaces, one of the default field delimiters for awk, in the fields. Anyhow, try adding FS="\t" OFS="\t" before the file name. Same might help for code 2.
Try also
Code:
awk     '$1!~/^NAME/    {$1="NAME=\"\"\t"$1; $0=$0}
         $2!~/^ADDR/    {$2="ADDRESS=\"\"\t"$2; $0=$0}        
         $3!~/^NUMB/    {$3="NUMBER=\"\"\t"$3; $0=$0}
         1
        ' FS="\t" OFS="\t" file

 

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WRAP-AND-SORT(1)					      General Commands Manual						  WRAP-AND-SORT(1)

NAME
wrap-and-sort - wrap long lines and sort items in Debian packaging files SYNOPSIS
wrap-and-sort [options] DESCRIPTION
wrap-and-sort wraps the package lists in Debian control files. By default the lists will only split into multiple lines if the entries are longer than 80 characters. wrap-and-sort sorts the package lists in Debian control files and all .install files. Beside that wrap-and-sort removes trailing spaces in these files. This script should be run in the root of a Debian package tree. It searches for control, control.in, copyright, copyright.in, install, and *.install in the debian directory. OPTIONS
-h, --help Show this help message and exit. -a, --wrap-always Wrap all package lists in the Debian control file even if the entries are shorter than 80 characters and could fit in one line line. -s, --short-indent Only indent wrapped lines by one space (default is in-line with the field name). -b, --sort-binary-packages Sort binary package paragraphs by name. -k, --keep-first When sorting binary package paragraphs, leave the first one at the top. Unqualified debhelper(7) configuration files are applied to the first package. -n, --no-cleanup Do not remove trailing whitespaces. -d path, --debian-directory=path Location of the debian directory (default: ./debian). -f file, --file=file Wrap and sort only the specified file. You can specify this parameter multiple times. All supported files will be processed if no files are specified. -v, --verbose Print all files that are touched. AUTHORS
wrap-and-sort and this manpage have been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>. Both are released under the ISC license. DEBIAN
Debian Utilities WRAP-AND-SORT(1)
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