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Old 03-09-2011
Sort alphabetically, then numerically
Greetings - I'm not necessarily new to bash scripting - I'm probably between beginner and intermediate, but I have something that I just cannot figure out after many attempts to find it. I have a file that is merely a list of many files, with their respective paths, and a branch path (ClearCase) that they live on. For instance, here is an example of this file:

Code:
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/9
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/11
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/10

As you can see, there are 3 instances of a file with 3 different versions depicted. Well, I need it sorted to where the end number is in order.
"sort -n" and "sort" doesn't work. The results are:
Code:
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/10
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/11
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/9

I need it to have the result like this:

Code:
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/9
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/10
/vobs/vob/path/to/where/the/file/is/foo.txt@@/main/int/dev/11

How do you do that??? Smilie
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Last edited by vgersh99; 03-09-2011 at 11:46 AM.. Reason: code tags, please!
# 2  
Old 03-09-2011
Code:
nawk -F/ '{print $NF, $0}' myFile | sort -k1n,1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-

# 3  
Old 03-09-2011
Code:
 
sort -n -t"/" -k 14  input_file

# 4  
Old 03-09-2011
Code:
sed 's#/\([^/]*\)$#|\1#' infile | sort -t\| -k1,1 -k2,2n | sed 's#|#/#'

# 5  
Old 03-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
nawk -F/ '{print $NF, $0}' myFile | sort -k1n,1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-

Thank you kindly, and all other peoples' responses! It worked well! My sincere apologies for not using code tags - lesson learned. Thanks all again! Smilie

---------- Post updated at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:12 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
nawk -F/ '{print $NF, $0}' myFile | sort -k1n,1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-

Forgot to mention that nawk package must be missing, however awk seemed to work just fine. Does it really matter?
# 6  
Old 03-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1cor29
Thank you kindly, and all other peoples' responses! It worked well! My sincere apologies for not using code tags - lesson learned. Thanks all again! Smilie

---------- Post updated at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:12 AM ----------



Forgot to mention that nawk package must be missing, however awk seemed to work just fine. Does it really matter?
if it works - it doesn't Smilie
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