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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to sort a content of a text file using a shell script? Post 302927992 by Don Cragun on Monday 8th of December 2014 05:38:22 AM
Old 12-08-2014
For the sample input in post #6, what is the output that you want from sorting that sample input data?

And, again, why can't you use awk for this? It seems that it would be very helpful for this assignment.
 

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