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yeap ..good point..this worked as well

thank you both

yeap tried that and worked just great

thanx.you've been really helpfull

cheers

i dont want the space in front..
but how:)

i have this file

11 tony tony
12 john john 0
13 nick nick 20
14 mary mary 40

i want to display the file like

tony tony missing
john john 0 Failed
nick nick Failed
mary mary 40
...

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...

i've tried that ,i 've read the man pages and still i cant get the numbers to appear at the end the file ..

any other ideas?

i have another question..

i have this file:

John Jones
John Smith
Jack Smith
100100 13
Helen Bold
100200 5

how can i use sort to make it look like :

Helen Bold
John Jones
Jack...

Thanx man i forgot * is a metacharacter.
cheers
kion

Hi
I'm using cygwin and the script below works just fine under cygwin..
when i upload it on a unix server the script fails with the following errors
-awk: syntax error near line 1
-awk: bailing...