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Old 05-19-2008
Sort Descending
HI,

i want to sort values in descending order and get the column no.s of the sorted value. my data will look like:

subject 1 2 3 4 5
bob 78 45 89 99 54

i want the score to be sorted in descending and get the corresponding subject sorted in the output. Please help me with gawk or ??

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
# 2  
Old 05-19-2008
This should give the expected output:

Code:
gawk '{
  split($0,a)
  asort(a)
  for(i=NF;i>0;i--){
    printf("%s ",a[i])
  }
  print ""
}' file

Regards
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