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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Issues with sorting in reverse order Post 302986876 by Braveheart on Thursday 1st of December 2016 06:59:50 AM
Old 12-01-2016
Gents, I am using Yosemite 10.10.5 with Bourne Again Shell. Bash

Say the summary.txt that is written to the desktop has content of:

Code:
banana.jpg
pear.jpg
tomato.jpg
apple.jpg
cucumber.png
yam.docx

I am trying to get it to sort in reverse alphabetical order.

Thus....

Code:
yam.docx
Tomato.jpg
Pear.jpg
Cucumber.png
apple.jpg

NB: I want this sort only for the summary.txt

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I will post the entire code block above.

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Code:
sort -r ~/desktop/summary.txt

is what I have in the code block right now and it is not working. Please revert above where I have listed my entire code.

Last edited by rbatte1; 12-01-2016 at 11:04 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags
 

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MAC-VENDOR(5)							File Formats Manual						     MAC-VENDOR(5)

NAME
mac-vendor - Ethernet vendor file for arp-scan SYNOPSIS
mac-vendor.txt DESCRIPTION
The mac-vendor.txt contains Ethernet MAC to vendor string mappings for arp-scan. It is used in addition to the IEEE OUI and IAB listings in ieee-oui.txt and ieee-iab.txt. It is for MAC-vendor mappings that are not covered by the IEEE manufacturer listings. Each line in the mac-vendor.txt file contains a MAC-vendor mapping in the form: <MAC-Prefix><TAB><Vendor> Where <MAC-Prefix> is the prefix of the MAC address in hex, and <Vendor> is the name of the vendor. The prefix can be of any length from two hex digits (one octet) to twelve hex digits (six octets, the entire Ethernet hardware address). The alphabetic hex characters [A-F] must be entered in upper case. For example: 012345 would match 01:23:45:xx:xx:xx, where xx represents any value; 0123456 would match 01:23:45:6x:xx:xx; and 01234567 would match 01:23:45:67:xx:xx. Blank lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored. The order of entries in the file is not important. arp-scan will attempt to match larger prefixes before trying to match smaller ones, and will stop at the first match. FILES
/usr/local/share/arp-scan/mac-vendor.txt EXAMPLE
# From nmap Debian bug report #369681 dated 31 May 2006 525400 QEMU B0C420 Bochs # From RFC 2338: 00-00-5E-00-01-{VRID} 00005E0001 VRRP (last octet is VRID) # Microsoft WLBS (Windows NT Load Balancing Service) # http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/acs/reskit/acrkappb.mspx 02BF Microsoft WLBS (last four octets are IP address) AUTHOR
Roy Hills <Roy.Hills@nta-monitor.com> SEE ALSO
arp-scan(1) get-oui(1) get-iab(1) arp-fingerprint(1) http://www.nta-monitor.com/wiki/ The arp-scan wiki page. March 30, 2007 MAC-VENDOR(5)
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