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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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NAME

       profile-manager - starts the gui for configuring the metadata used by desktop-profiles

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       The  desktop profiles package needs metadata about the available profiles in order to decide when to activate which profiles. This metadata
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