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Is it possible to sort the letters in a word in a line of text?
So I have a file full of test commands that I like to run against some of my functions to make sure they are handling all possible situations correctly. No point in having duplicate commands tho. ...
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awk: sort by first column then second; output unique 1st column once but all 2nd column
I have a two-column file that you can create as follows
cat > twocol << EOF
007 03
001 03
003 01
137 12
001 11
002 01
002 02
002 03
001 02
002 04
137 94
010 21
001 01
EOF
The resultant file, ...
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Reverse sorting of 2 textblocks in larger set of textblocks
I have a list of data, separated into blocks by headlines. The headlines are marked by 6 '=' signs at beginning and end.
There is a limited set of headlines that may appear, but not all of them appear ...
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Awk- Compare Numbers from Two Files and write Differences in New File
I have two lists with item numbers and want to mark the difference between these lists by writing the numbers wich aren't in both files in a new file.
Both Files have the item number in column 2 and ...
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How can I sort the lines in this text file?
I have a text file with book name and chapter in the bible. I would like to sort the lines so that
lines are first sorted according to the order between their books, the lexical order between the ...
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sort the whole .csv based on the value in a certain column
I have a csv file with different revenues. I want to sort the csv file on revenue from high to low value. I can't find how to do this in terminal without the use of python.
I don't want to use python.
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Collect chars from strings and print their unicode
Context (skip, if you don't care; read, if you suspect I'm totally on the wrong track)
For an embedded system with small memory, I want to generate fonts which contain only those glyphs actually ...
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Commands runs in shell, but not in script: no directory found error
I have a few commands that don't run as a script.
It's supposed to create a bulleted list of the file names, then sort the columns of each file alphabetically, grab the second and its matching third ...
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Sort by column group and ignore other columns failing for this example, why?
I cannot work out why sort is not working correctly for this, but it's sorting based on columns I'm telling it not to. I want to sort with priorities first by column 3, then column 4, then column 5, ...
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How to sort text file lines in ASCII order?
Let's say I have the following file.txt:
foo-a baz
foo bar
foo-c baz
If I run sort file.txt, I get the same output:
foo-a baz
foo bar
foo-c baz
Since (space) is before - in ASCII, I expected the ...
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Trouble creating for loop with multiple commands to read csv files
I'm trying to create a for loop that reads prints the file name, alphabetizes fields, and adds html tags that would ultimately create an html file that looks like
<h3 id= filename> file </h3&...
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Compare files with similar names by size between folders
I have two folders with thousands of files each. One folder from last year with a letter and the year prefix for each file (a2020abc123.txt), and the same file for this year in another folder with the ...
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The total size of the argument list and exported variables exceeds the OS limit of 1MB
I was doing a grid search for some scientific computing project, and got a bunch of log files with parameters embedded in the filenames.
$ ls -l | wc -l
38210
$ ls -l | tail
-rw-rw-r-- 1 qys ...
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cert expired report per date
Hi How can i sort below file so as to have cert expiration date is used to sort this, thanks
Cluster10* expire date: Feb 22 23:59:59 2024 GMT
Cluster11* expire date: Feb 1 23:59:59 2023 GMT
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How to sort each 20 lines in a 1000 line file and save only the sorted line with highest value in each interval to another file?
I have a file that has 1000 text lines. I want to sort the 4th column at each 20 lines interval and print the output to another file. Can anybody help me with sorting them with awk or sed?
Here is an ...
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