I have a file containing rows of information. The row needs to be broken down into blocks of 5 and then sorted.
Example:
I need it to look as follows:
I'm sure there is a way of cutting the row up (also need to cater for any number of blocks of 5 chars in a row. Could be from 5 to 35 chars). Or using awk but I am struggling to find it.
Last edited by radoulov; 08-26-2011 at 03:30 PM..
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I don't see a easy way to do it with shell and awk.
I cannot think of a shell-based approach that is as succinct and efficient as your perl solution, but the following isn't too bad (with regard to complexity):
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
You do not need numeric sorting for numbers with the same number of digits.
Hmmmm. Hypothetically, it's possible for someone to create (if it doesn't already exist) a locale in which the collation sequence specified breaks the numerical sort of equi-width numbers. The C/POSIX 0,1,2...,8,9 order is not mandated. Although, I can't think of a reason why anyone would deviate from that sequence.
I suspect that, in practice, you are probably 100% correct, but I decided to play it safe with -n.
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1. I have to concatenate the 10 fixed width files.
2. sort based on first 10 characters
3. after that i have remove first 10 chacters from the file.
can you please tell me how to do it.
Thanks in Advance
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