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Date: | Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:41:31 -0800 |
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On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Bob R. wrote:
> Thanks, Mark. I thought something might be there in shell
> scripting, but I could not
> remember.
Take a look at man sort if you need anything fancy. Unix sort can do
many interesting things (including sorting English 3-character month
abbreviations in the sequence of the months during the year),
sorting numerically (so that 9 comes before 10), ignoring leading
spaces, sorting on multiple fields (keys), returning only a single
copy of items which aren't unique (per the keys), checking that the
input is already in order, rather than changing the order, and so on.
--John
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