Maybe I didn't understand what you're trying to do. I thought the Col_n was supposed to cause the following lines up to the next Col_n line to be sorted in increasing alphanumeric order based on the nth character in the line.
Unfortunately, with the sample data given, there is no way to tell if you're trying to sort on the whole line or on the nth character since the results would be the same. If you are trying to sort on the nth character, rdrtx1's script won't do that. Assuming that there aren't any spaces or tabs in your input file (at least not before the character position that is to be sorted), the following might work:
If your input file contains:
rdrtx1's script will produce:
while the script above will produce:
If there are spaces in your input file, you need to specify a field separator in the sort command naming a character that can never appear in your input file. If there are tabs in the input file and you want to sort based on output line positions (rather than input character counts), you would have to expand input tabs to a variable number of spaces depending on where in the input line the tab(s) appear. And if you want to sort on output print positions and there are backspace characters in the input, you will need to give a much clearer explanation of what is supposed to happen.
If you want to try the above awk script on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.
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Hi,
This is my input file:
ali 5 usa abc
abu 4 uk bca
alan 6 brazil bac
pinky 10 utah sdc
My desired output:
pinky 10 utah sdc
alan 6 brazil bac
ali 5 usa abc
abu 4 uk bca
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Hi,
My input file is
$cat samp
1 siva
1 raja
2 siva
1 siva
2 raja
4 venkat
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i am using
cat samp|awk '{print $2,$1}'|sort -u
it showing
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1.722e-05
2.018e-05
2.548e-05
2.747e-05
7.897e-05
4.016e-05
4.613e-05
4.613e-05
5.151e-05
5.151e-05
5.151e-05
6.1e-05
6.254e-05
7.04e-05
7.12e-05
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I have a table to be imported for R as matrix or data.frame but I first need to edit it because I've got several lines with the same identifier (1st column), so I want to sum the each column (2nd -nth) of each identifier (1st column)
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The following sort does not work.
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I am having an input file like this
Input file
7 sks/jsjssj/ddjd/hjdjd/hdhd/Q 10 0.5 13
dkdkd/djdjd/djdjd/djd/QB 01 0.5
ldld/dkd/jdf/fjfjf/fjf/Q 0.5
10 sjs/jsdd/djdkd/dhd/Q 01 0.5 21
kdkd/djdd/djdd/jdd/djd/QB 01 0.5
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