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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Sort a text file based on names in square brackets Post 303024631 by RudiC on Saturday 13th of October 2018 04:49:59 AM
Old 10-13-2018
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Code:
awk '$NF=$NF OFS' RS= ORS="\n" FS="\n" OFS="\t" file | sort | tr '\t' '\n'
[apple]
Stuff
That
Is
Needed

[banana]
Text
More text
Etc

[friend]
Etc
Etc


Last edited by RudiC; 10-13-2018 at 06:41 AM..
 

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SYNOPSIS
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array_push(3) treats $array as a stack, and pushes the passed variables onto the end of $array. The length of $array increases by the num- ber of variables pushed. Has the same effect as: <?php $array[] = $var; ?> Note If you use array_push(3) to add one element to the array it's better to use $array[] = because in that way there is no overhead of calling a function. Note array_push(3) will raise a warning if the first argument is not an array. This differs from the $var[] behaviour where a new array is created. PARAMETERS
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Returns the new number of elements in the array. EXAMPLES
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