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# 15  
Old 06-22-2012
Sadly, I need plain unix as I'm using it in a Kindle!
# 16  
Old 06-22-2012
what is "plain unix"?

What kind of "plain unix" runs in a kindle?

There is no actual operating system named "UNIX" any more, the same way IEEE doesn't actually manufacture electrical sockets, just define what they ought to look like.
# 17  
Old 06-22-2012
As I stated before, I'm new to all of this...
All I can tell you is that I can't use perl or bash, only "standard" shell commands.
# 18  
Old 06-22-2012
I'm not trying to be difficult, my question's actually relevant. If you don't know, you should find out -- it's important. Even the 'standard' commands aren't quite the same everywhere, and knowing what extensions you do and don't have may make the difference between a simple, fast solution and a slow, difficult one.

uname -a should tell you.
# 19  
Old 06-22-2012
Here's the output:
Code:
Linux kindle 2.6.31-rt11-lab126 #1 Wed Apr 4 20:41:38 PDT 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux

# 20  
Old 06-22-2012
Okay, you have linux on an embedded system, which probably means your utilities -- close to all of them -- are just busybox. (a swiss-army-knife of a program which can pretend to be dozens or hundreds of different minimal shell commands.) This isn't generic UNIX at all, quite far from it really.

busybox comes with a half-decent version of awk at least so I'll take a look...
# 21  
Old 06-22-2012
Thanks a lot for everything!!

I don't know how to do it, but sorting with two keys should work...
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