Could you please advise on the following: I have two space-delimited files with 9 and 10 columns, respectively, with exactly the same values in column 1. However, the order of column 1 differs between the two files, so I want to sort both files by column 1, so that I can align them and concatenate them into a 19 column file.
If I want to sort by column 1, I usually use "sort -k 1,1 -g". I have done this hundreds of times and I have never had a problem with it.
This is the first time ever that the sort function has given a different output for the two files, despite using identical commands:
and
Why is this happening despite identical commands? I'm especially puzzled because I have never encountered this before.
Hi--
Ok. I have now found that:
find -x -ls
will do what I need as far as finding all files on a particular volume. Now I need to sort the results by the file's modification date/time.
Is there a way to do that?
Also, I notice that for many files, whereas the man for find says ls is... (8 Replies)
Hi,
here is my perl script.This script creates an array and is sorting it using the in-built sort function in perl.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
my number=6;
my @num_arr=(1,2,3,4,5);
my @array=(23,"$number","Hello",2.345,@num_arr);
#printing the array
print... (2 Replies)
Hi All
I have a flat text file. Each line in it contains a "/full path/filename". The last three columns are predictable, but directory depth of each line varies.
I want to sort on the last three columns, starting from the last, 2nd last and 3rd last. In that order. The last three columns... (6 Replies)
Hi Perl Gurus , need URGENT HELP PLEASE !!!!!
I have one recursive Perl function which takes path of any directory as argument and returns array containing all the sub folders inside it recursively.
Now the problem is that it works well if i use it with one time but the problem is that when... (0 Replies)
Here is the code, but the list is not sorted properly (alphabetically)?
<?php
function folderlist(){
$startdir = './';
$ignoredDirectory = '.';
$ignoredDirectory = '..';
if (is_dir($startdir)){
if ($dh = opendir($startdir)){
while (($folder = readdir($dh)) !== false){
if... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem with a shell script.
The script should find all .cpp and .h files and list them.
With:
for file in `find $src -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp'
it gives out this:
H:\FileList\A\E\F\G\newCppFile.cpp
H:\FileList\header01.h
H:\FileList\B\nextCppFile.cpp
... (4 Replies)
I am trying to sort a file . The file looks like this:
DDFF 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
DDFQ 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
DDFX 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
DDUA 2 /ztpfrepos/pgr/load
My command:
sort -k1 /home/c153507/Bin/OPL1.txt -o /home/c153507/Bin/OPL1.txt
The results are OK except for one line where... (4 Replies)
Hi Folks -
I have this file that looks like this:
outbox/logs/Client_1042.log
outbox/logs/Client_941.log
outbox/logs/Client_942.log
outbox/logs/Client_943.log
outbox/logs/Client_944.log
And this is my code:
#!/bin/bash
_OUTBOX_BIN="outbox/logs/"
_NAME="Client"
_TEMP="temp.txt"... (9 Replies)
Using the 'strings' command and piping the result to 'sort' is producing strange results. I get block of lines that begin with asterisks, then a block that begins with some text, then more lines that begin with asterisks. The actual content is correct - lines beginning with asterisks is the... (5 Replies)
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comm
comm(1) General Commands Manual comm(1)NAME
comm - select or reject lines common to two sorted files
SYNOPSIS
file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
comm reads file1 and file2, which should be ordered in increasing collating sequence (see sort(1) and Environment Variables below), and
produces a three-column output:
Column 1: Lines that appear only in file1,
Column 2: Lines that appear only in file2,
Column 3: Lines that appear in both files.
If is used for file1 or file2, the standard input is used.
Options 1, 2, or 3 suppress printing of the corresponding column. Thus prints only the lines common to the two files; prints only lines in
the first file but not in the second; does nothing useful.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the collating sequence expects from the input files.
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default. If is not specified or is set to
the empty string, a default of ``C'' (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,
behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to ``C''. See environ(5).
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
EXAMPLES
The following examples assume that and have been ordered in the collating sequence defined by the or environment variable.
Print all lines common to and (in other words, print column 3):
Print all lines that appear in but not in (in other words, print column 1):
Print all lines that appear in but not in (in other words, print column 2):
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sdiff(1), sort(1), uniq(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE comm(1)