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# 1  
Old 05-28-2014
Sort references

I have the following entries and want to perform a sort.
Each entry is separated by a newline, however each line should not be considired seperate. Maybe an awk program or similar, or a small script.

Code:
Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling 
     of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364, 
     p. 699.

Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources 
     of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, 
     (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.

Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis
     of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512, 
     pp. 458-470.

Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998. 
     Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution 
     to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495, 
     pp. L115-L118.

The sort should yield

Code:
Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling 
     of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364, 
     p. 699.

Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis
     of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512, 
     pp. 458-470.

Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources 
     of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, 
     (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.

Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998. 
     Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution 
     to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495, 
     pp. L115-L118.

# 2  
Old 05-28-2014
Use something to replace with the new line. You know that a blank line is a record separator.

Code:
 awk '{
>     gsub(/\n/,"\1");
>     print $0 "\1" }
> ' RS= file | sort | tr '\1' '\12'
Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling
     of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364,
     p. 699.

Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis
     of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512,
     pp. 458-470.

Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources
     of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars,
     (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.

Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998.
     Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution
     to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495,
     pp. L115-L118.

Reference here
# 3  
Old 05-28-2014
Code:
perl -00e'print sort <>' infile

This User Gave Thanks to radoulov For This Post:
# 4  
Old 05-28-2014
Hi.

Utility msort provides for paragraph sorts among its many options:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate sort by paragraphs, msort.
# See msort in repository or at:
# http://freecode.com/projects/msort

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C msort

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Results:"
msort -q -b -w $FILE

exit 0

producing:
Code:
$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 5.0.8 (lenny, workstation) 
bash GNU bash 3.2.39
msort 8.44

-----
 Input data file data1:
Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling 
     of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364, 
     p. 699.

Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources 
     of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, 
     (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.

Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis
     of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512, 
     pp. 458-470.

Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998. 
     Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution 
     to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495, 
     pp. L115-L118.

-----
 Results:
Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling 
     of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364, 
     p. 699.

Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis
     of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512, 
     pp. 458-470.

Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources 
     of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, 
     (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.

Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998. 
     Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution 
     to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495, 
     pp. L115-L118.

The options are quiet, record is a block, sort entire text of record. These may be refined as necessary.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
# 5  
Old 05-28-2014
I also want to number them starting from an initial value.

Code:
[3] Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling       
       of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364,       
       p. 699.  

[4] Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis      
       of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512,       
       pp. 458-470. 

[5] Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources       
        of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars,       
        (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.  

[6] Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998.       
        Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution       
        to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495,       
        pp. L115-L118.

# 6  
Old 06-01-2014
With well over 800 posts in these forums and the code you have been given, I am disappointed that you could not add reference numbers on your own. Try this minor modification to clx's awk script:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# Usage: sortrefs [starting_sequence_number [input_file]]
# Sort references found in the given input_file (default ref.txt) and add
# sequences numbers starting with starting_sequence_number (default 1).
awk '
{	gsub(/\n/,"\1");
	print $0 "\1"
}' RS='' "${2:-ref.txt}" | sort | awk -v sseq="${1:-1}" '
{	gsub(/\1/, "\n")
	printf("[%d] %s\n", sseq++, $0)
}'

As always, if you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk (in both places where it is used in this script) to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.

I use the Korn shell, but this script can use, ksh, bash, or any other shell that supports POSIX required variable expansions. If you save the above script in a file names sortrefs, make it executable, and invoke it as:
Code:
./sortrefs 44

when ref.txt contains your sample input, the output produced is:
Code:
[44] Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling 
     of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364, 
     p. 699.

[45] Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis
     of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512, 
     pp. 458-470.

[46] Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources 
     of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, 
     (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.

[47] Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998. 
     Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution 
     to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495, 
     pp. L115-L118.

# 7  
Old 06-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by kristinu
I also want to number them starting from an initial value.

Code:
[3] Anderson, E.R., Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Jefferies, S.M., 1990. Modelling       
       of Solar Oscilation Power Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 364,       
       p. 699.  

[4] Basu, S., Antia, H.M., and Tripathy, S.C. 1999. Ring Diagram Analysis      
       of Near-Surface Flow in the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 512,       
       pp. 458-470. 

[5] Duvall, T.L., Jr., and Harvey, J.W., 1986. Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources       
        of Continuous Spectra. In Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars,       
        (ed. D. Gough), NATO A Ser., Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 105.  

[6] Nigam, R., Kosovichev, A.G., Scherrer, P.H., and Schou, J., 1998.       
        Asymmetry in Velocity and Intensity Helioseismic Spectra: A solution       
        to a long-standing puzzle. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 495,       
        pp. L115-L118.

Code:
perl -00 -e  '$ln=3; for(sort<>){printf ("[%d] %s\n", $ln++, $_)};'

 
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