How to sort on right most column
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Wed May 15 15:17:07 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of rock at warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro):
:How could I do this using either the sort command, or perl or awk?
:
:I have the following data in this format - I want to sort it on the
:right most column. The columns are not tab delimited, and some of the
:columns have arbitrary numbers of words (specifically the third column
:from the left, column c). Sort assumes that you start numbering on the
:left, and count from 0. How would you start with the right most
:column, column e?
:
: FOO BAR ACE CORPORATION SUNNYVALE 2.00
: FOO BAR ACER COMPUTED COMPANY MILPITAS 20.00
How about?
sort -t^A +0.60n
Assumptions:
no control-A's in data
the sort should be numeric
the numbers don't begin until column 61
--tom
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