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# 1  
Old 05-10-2011
sort each row of text file alone
Hello ,

i have a text file like this

Code:
1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE
2 a2 ,WE ;TR ,YT ,WW 
3 a3 ;AS ,UY ;RF ,YT

i want to sort this text file based on each row , and excluding 2nd column from the sorting and not taking the comma or ; into consideration in the sorting, so it will become like this :

Code:
1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE 
2 a2 ;TR ,WE ,WW ,YT  
3 a3 ;AS ;RF ,UY ,YT

is this can be done ?
thanks in advance
Last edited by shelladdict; 05-10-2011 at 10:52 AM..
# 2  
Old 05-10-2011
Try:
Code:
perl -nae '@F[2..$#F]=sort {$x=$a;$y=$b;$x=~s/[,;]//;$y=~s/[,;]//;$x cmp $y} @F[2..$#F];print "@F\n"' file

# 3  
Old 05-10-2011
Hello , thanks for your reply , but it did not worked
# 4  
Old 05-10-2011
What output did you get? It worked for me...
Code:
[root@linux ~]# cat file
1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE
2 a2 ,WE ;TR ,YT ,WW
3 a3 ;AS ,UY ;RF ,YT
[root@linux ~]#
[root@linux ~]# perl -nae '@F[2..$#F]=sort {$x=$a;$y=$b;$x=~s/[,;]//;$y=~s/[,;]//;$x cmp $y} @F[2..$#F];print "@F\n"' file
1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE
2 a2 ;TR ,WE ,WW ,YT
3 a3 ;AS ;RF ,UY ,YT

# 5  
Old 05-10-2011
try:
Code:
echo '1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE
2 a2 ,WE ;TR ,YT ,WW
3 a3 ;AS ,UY ;RF ,YT'  |awk '{printf $1 FS $2 FS;for(i=3;i<=NF;i++) b[i]=$i;l=asort(b); for(j=1;j<=l;j++) print b[j] FS|"sort|xargs -n4";printf "";close("sort|xargs -n4");delete b}'
1 a1 ,AB ,AC ;AD ,EE
2 a2 ;TR ,WE ,WW ,YT
3 a3 ;AS ;RF ,UY ,YT

# 6  
Old 05-11-2011
thanks everyone for your reply , but i'm not that good in shell , so if i changed the , and ; to another characters , what i should i change in the script ?? i think that's why it's not working ,

thanks
# 7  
Old 05-11-2011
Which characters do you want to remove exactly?
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