In addition to what Chubler_XL has already said, the entire purpose of the code:
is to undo what the ls -h option did and give you an approximation to the actual file size in bytes that can be sorted numerically. If you were willing to change the 1st command in your pipeline from ls -lh to just ls -l, those two statements could be removed from the awk script and the sed command (which deletes the file size in bytes from the output) could be removed from the end of the pipeline.
Can someone please tell me how to sort a file, based on a particular position within the file?
I have a line sequential file that is 152 bytes per record, in which i need to sort the file based on the numeric data in positions 142-152.
I have done the "man sort" command and see the -k option... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am going to sort a huge flat file using sort command, this file is about 36 million lines, 179 fields delimitered by Ctrl B (002). eg.
1^B198709.....
17^B200301....
3^B196511....
.....
I want this file being sorted by the first field, the result is like :
1^B198709........ (2 Replies)
Hi
IŽd like to get a few explanations about how the sort command works when cascading the options.
cscyabl@comet:(develop)> more file
2:A2
2:A1
5:A2
5:A2
10:A1
cscyabl@comet:(develop)> sort -n -u file
2:A1
5:A2
10:A1
cscyabl@comet:(develop)> sort -u -n file
2:A1
5:A2
10:A1... (8 Replies)
Hi i have a file containing ip addresses and want to sort those IP addresses in the ascending order.
file (match.txt) contents are:
192.168.0.100
192.168.0.16
192.168.0.10
192.168.0.23
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.222
i tried:
sort -n match.txt
output is :... (3 Replies)
Hi to all.
I'm trying to sort this with the Unix command sort.
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1
I need to get this:
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2... (7 Replies)
I have file ipaddress.txt
192.168.1.25
127.3.9.12
192.168.12.1
127.21.2.3
127.92.80.6
192.168.4.5
I want to sort as
127.3.9.12
127.21.2.3
127.92.80.6
192.168.1.25
192.168.12.1
192.168.4.5
So what sort command do I have to use. (1 Reply)
I have a file with the following content:-
181268525,0640613864,B,113,22-dec-2011 14:12:08,
181268525,0640613864,C,113,25-dec-2011 14:18:50,
181268525,0640613864,L,113,26-dec-2011 14:07:46,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,01-jan-2012 16:57:45,
181268525,0640613864,X,113,04-jan-2012 14:13:27,... (3 Replies)
I have an input like
4.3.6.66
4.3.6.67
4.3.6.70
4.3.6.25
4.3.6.15
4.3.6.54
4.3.6.44
4.3.6.34
4.3.6.24
4.3.6.14
4.3.6.53
4.3.6.43
4.3.6.49
4.3.6.33
4.3.6.52
4.3.6.19
4.3.6.58
4.3.6.42 (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dnam9917
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-awk
DPKG-AWK(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-AWK(1)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
values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that
follows will NOT be output.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)