02-10-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by zazzybob
Tested on the sample data provided the following command works as expected - your milage may vary.
sort -k1n -k2 my_file
Tested...
Helen Bold
John Jones
Jack Smith
John Smith
100100 13
100200 5
Cheers
ZB
well done mate ...i couldnt find anything and someone proposed using grep like :
(grep -v '^[0-9]' final2 | sort -k 2,2 -k 1,1; grep '^[0-9]' final2 | sort -k 2,2 -k 1,1)
wich worked just fine but yours is much sorter and number of characters does count in my programm
thanx
Last edited by kion; 02-10-2005 at 07:27 PM..
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
gmt2dat gmtfile
DESCRIPTION
gmt2dat reads a <legid>.gmt file and converts it to a regular ASCII text file that can be edited using the text editor. The ASCII text is
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SEE ALSO
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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
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