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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sort alphabetically starting from specified letter Post 302958346 by Yoda on Wednesday 21st of October 2015 11:35:29 AM
Old 10-21-2015
An awk approach:-
Code:
awk -v S="X" '
        BEGIN {
                n = split( "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z", A )
                for ( i = 1; i <= n; i++ )
                {
                        if ( A[i] == S )
                                s_idx = i
                }
        }
        {
                R[$1]
                next
        }
        END {
                if ( s_idx > 1 )
                {
                        for ( j = s_idx; j <= n; j++ )
                        {
                                if ( A[j] in R )
                                        print A[j]
                        }
                        for ( k = 1; k < s_idx; k++ )
                        {
                                if ( A[k] in R )
                                        print A[k]
                        }
                }
                else
                {
                        for ( j = 1; j <= n; j++ )
                        {
                                if ( A[j] in R )
                                        print A[j]
                        }
                }
        }
' filename

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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