Shell Programming Question - sort

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <751 at ncs.dnd.ca>,
	marwood at ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
)I am trying to sort (using "sort" in Ultrix) based on the last two
)characters in a line (which are numeric).  There are a variable number
)of characters in a line, and these last two characters are preceded by a
)space, [...]

sed 's/\(.*\) \(..\)$/\2 \1/' | sort | sed 's/\(..\) \(.*\)/\2 \1/'
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