It may just be a simple numeric sort, similar to how Unix will too if you ask it to. Letters are seen as sorted before numbers, however zero (a zero value, even if 75 characters long) will be before them all. A shorter number of leading zeros is sorted before longer ones, of the same value.
You might illustrate it with this:-
I hope that this helps,
Robin
Hello all,
Below is what I am trying to accomplish:
I have a file that looks like this
/* ----------------- xxxx.y_abcd_00000050 ----------------- */
jdghjghkla
sadgsdags
asdgsdgasd
asdgsagasdg
/* ----------------- xxxx.y_abcd_00000055 ----------------- */
sdgsdg
sdgxcvzxcbv... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
Sorry if the question is trivial for you but, I am new to Apache (2.0.63) and am trying to figure out how to display my 400.cgi. Here is what I have in httpd.conf
servername testing
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
ErrorDocument 400 /cgi-bin/badrequest-400.cgi
Here is... (0 Replies)
Hello. I have an RS/6000 running AIX 4 and I need to be able to see if there are any users that are logged on more than once from the same terminal so I can kick them off to make room for other terminals. 64 connections is the limit. Currently I am doing this:
who | more
and then manually... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I have a page where multiple fields and their values are displayed. But I am able to sort only a few fields. When I looked into the issue, it is seen that the for each row of info , an unique id is generated and id.txt is generated and saved. Only those fields which are inside that id.txt... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Let's say I have these 3 columns;
NGC1234 6 9
SL899 4 1
NGC1075 8 3
SL709 5 2
And I want to sort the data according to the first column (from a to z) like having them as:
NGC1075 8 3
NGC1234 6 9
SL709 5 2
SL899 4 1
Can that be done... (2 Replies)
Hello guys. I need help figuring this one out. It's probably really easy. Thanks in advance!
I have a file say for example containing this:
Rice Food
Carrots Food
Beans Food
Plates Kitchen
Fork Kitchen
Knives Kitchen
I need:
Food Rice, Carrots, Beans
Kitchen Plates, Fork,... (7 Replies)
Hello,
we received an IBM data cartridge with some data on it. It is a backup of an old IBM AS400 machine that had gone for good some years ago. I am able to extract data from this tape by using dd on a LINUX system:
Analysing the received file with forensic software (Xways, haven't tried Encase... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a long list made of 4 columns containing entries such as the following example:
a b c d
0 0 0 0
1 2 1 2
2 5 3 4
3 8 4 6
4 10 9 8
5 15 8 10So the top row is the header and I need to arrange the data in a way as to... (11 Replies)
My actual data looks like below
i have given only format. i can't give exact data format of my requirement due to some reasons. I this set of data lines about 5000
I need to come up with information in below
exact format of my data set :
Line<space>Number1<space>"somedata":... (1 Reply)
Hi,
PFB the data:
C_Random_130417
Java_Random_130518
Perl_Random_120519
Perl_Random_120528
so the values are ending with year,i.e.,130417
i want to sort the values with date.
i want the output like this:
Perl_Random_120519
Perl_Random_120528
C_Random_130417
Java_Random_130518
can... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: arindam guha
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LEARN ABOUT V7
sort
SORT(1) General Commands Manual SORT(1)NAME
sort - sort or merge files
SYNOPSIS
sort [ -_________x ] [ +pos1 [ -pos2 ] ] ... [ -o name ] [ -T directory ] [ name ] ...
DESCRIPTION
Sort sorts lines of all the named files together and writes the result on the standard output. The name `-' means the standard input. If
no input files are named, the standard input is sorted.
The default sort key is an entire line. Default ordering is lexicographic by bytes in machine collating sequence. The ordering is
affected globally by the following options, one or more of which may appear.
b Ignore leading blanks (spaces and tabs) in field comparisons.
d `Dictionary' order: only letters, digits and blanks are significant in comparisons.
f Fold upper case letters onto lower case.
i Ignore characters outside the ASCII range 040-0176 in nonnumeric comparisons.
n An initial numeric string, consisting of optional blanks, optional minus sign, and zero or more digits with optional decimal point, is
sorted by arithmetic value. Option n implies option b.
r Reverse the sense of comparisons.
tx `Tab character' separating fields is x.
The notation +pos1 -pos2 restricts a sort key to a field beginning at pos1 and ending just before pos2. Pos1 and pos2 each have the form
m.n, optionally followed by one or more of the flags bdfinr, where m tells a number of fields to skip from the beginning of the line and n
tells a number of characters to skip further. If any flags are present they override all the global ordering options for this key. If the
b option is in effect n is counted from the first nonblank in the field; b is attached independently to pos2. A missing .n means .0; a
missing -pos2 means the end of the line. Under the -tx option, fields are strings separated by x; otherwise fields are nonempty nonblank
strings separated by blanks.
When there are multiple sort keys, later keys are compared only after all earlier keys compare equal. Lines that otherwise compare equal
are ordered with all bytes significant.
These option arguments are also understood:
c Check that the input file is sorted according to the ordering rules; give no output unless the file is out of sort.
m Merge only, the input files are already sorted.
o The next argument is the name of an output file to use instead of the standard output. This file may be the same as one of the
inputs.
T The next argument is the name of a directory in which temporary files should be made.
u Suppress all but one in each set of equal lines. Ignored bytes and bytes outside keys do not participate in this comparison.
Examples. Print in alphabetical order all the unique spellings in a list of words. Capitalized words differ from uncapitalized.
sort -u +0f +0 list
Print the password file (passwd(5)) sorted by user id number (the 3rd colon-separated field).
sort -t: +2n /etc/passwd
Print the first instance of each month in an already sorted file of (month day) entries. The options -um with just one input file make the
choice of a unique representative from a set of equal lines predictable.
sort -um +0 -1 dates
FILES
/usr/tmp/stm*, /tmp/*: first and second tries for temporary files
SEE ALSO uniq(1), comm(1), rev(1), join(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Comments and exits with nonzero status for various trouble conditions and for disorder discovered under option -c.
BUGS
Very long lines are silently truncated.
SORT(1)