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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sorting lines Post 61941 by Phantom on Thursday 10th of February 2005 03:17:20 AM
Old 02-10-2005
easiest way would be using sort +pos1 -pos2 ( man sort ). However, first you need to convert your file in column aligned format, so that both surname and name columns begin in known position.
 

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DAT2GMT(1gmt)						       Generic Mapping Tools						     DAT2GMT(1gmt)

NAME
dat2gmt - Convert an ASCII file to a binary gmt file SYNOPSIS
dat2gmt gmtfile DESCRIPTION
dat2gmt reads an ASCII version of a gmt file (made by gmt2dat) from standard input and creates a binary gmt file. EXAMPLES
To create a gmt file from the ASCII file c2104_fixed.ascii, run dat2gmt c2104.gmt < c2104_fixed.ascii SEE ALSO
gmt2dat(1), GMT(1) REFERENCES
Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 2011, The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) version 4.5.7 Technical Reference & Cookbook, SOEST/NOAA. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1998, New, Improved Version of Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 79(47), p. 579. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 76(33), p. 329. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/95154e.html, Copyright 1995 by the American Geophysical Union. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1991, Free Software Helps Map and Display Data, EOS Trans., AGU, 72(41), p. 441. GMT 4.5.7 15 Jul 2011 DAT2GMT(1gmt)
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