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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Using the 'strings' command and piping the result to 'sort' is producing strange results. I get block of lines that begin with asterisks, then a block that begins with some text, then more lines that begin with asterisks. The actual content is correct - lines beginning with asterisks is the... (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I sort this, first by 2nd field then by 1st field.
tried sort -b -k 2,2
Input:
AS11 AB1
BD34 AB10
AF12 AC2
A345 AB10
R134 AB2
456 AC10
TTT2 BD12
desired output:
AS11 AB1
R134 AB2
A345 AB10
BD34 AB10
AF12 AC2
456 AC10
TTT2 BD12 (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to sort my data first by the 2nd field then by the first field.
I can't use sort -V because I don't have gnu sort and cannot install one.
How do I go about this?
Input:
G456 KT1 34
K234 KT10 45
L2 KT2 26
H5 LAF2 28
F3 LAF2 36
Output:
G456 KT1 34
L2 KT2 26
K234 KT10 45
F3... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: aydj
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to sort a file which contains alphanumeric string.
bash-3.00$ cat abc
mtng1so
mtng2so
mtng11so
mtng9so
mtng23so
mtng7so
hstg2so
hstg9so
hstg1so
hstg11so
hstg13so
bash-3.00$
Want output like this, using one liner.
hstg1so (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Raza Ali
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
My developer is on vacation and I am not sure if there is something which is easier for this.
I have an array of strings. Each string in the array has "%" characters in it. I have to get the string(s) which have the least number of "%" in them.
I know how I can get occurrences :
... (7 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,everyone. I am learning some Info commands.I put all commands and their explanations in a file.
This is a part of it:
ESC PgUp (scroll-other-window-backward)Scroll the other window backward
ESC Right (forward-word) Move forward a word
ESC r (move-to-window-line)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
So, suppose I want to sort something in some arbitrary order... for example, let's say I have "grades" (actually, work evaluation results where I work) that are, from best to worst, E, A, S, D, P. So, I want to sort by a "grade" column with the E's first, then the A's, etc. Is there a reasonably... (2 Replies)
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8. Programming
Hy guys. My English is not so good, sorry for any mistakes.
I'm a bigginer in C, and I have a problem. I want to sort ascending n strings, but I can't read the strings. Here is what I've done so far:
//sort ascending n strings
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int n,i,j;
char a;
... (8 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to find the longest word in /usr/share/dict/words
The first thing I can think of is to sort the content by length then it would be easy to find out, but then i realize theres no option of sort to sort by length.
Could you guys please give me some help?:confused: (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: rockbike
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a perl script with an array of clients.
@arr = ("The ABC Corp", "AA Corp.", "BB Corp");
If I run
@a = sort (@arr);
I will get
@a = ("AA Corp", "BB Corp", "The ABC Corp");
but I want
@a = ("AA Corp, "The ABC Corp", "BB Corp");
How do I sort array without changing... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: photon
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