Hi, Chris!
See below please:
On 13 Dec 2017, at 7:42, Christopher Stone wrote:
On 12/12/2017, at 22:46, Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I’ll correct this right now: I would like to sort alphabetically
this list of songs in regard to column 3 (where the title of the song
begins) (Thanks again, Chris! ;-)
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- For No One - The Beatles
* Hound Dog - Elvis
- I Don't Eat Animals - Melanie
- Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
Hey Vlad,
By column 3 I'm assuming you mean the 3rd single character from the
left.
When looking at this text as a table you'd generally consider that to
be column 2.
Yes, the 3rd single character from the left, sorry for the confusion (I
think I learned naming them as column long ago as a Vim-user :-)
This pattern works in the Sort Lines command:
^(.) +(\w.+(?= - )) - (\w.+)$
That worked!
Thanks!
I've encapulated the leader-character, the song name, and the group
name as field 1, 2, and 3.
So you can sort on any of those columns.
Cool!
Thanks again!
If you want to do this with a text-filter then it's quite
straightforward:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
sort -k2,2
* Babe I'm Gonna Live You - Led Zeppelin
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- Blackbird - The Beatles
* End Of The Line - The Traveling Willburys
...
Hmmm… I'm ashamed to ask, but I forgot: How/Where do I define a new
text-filter?
Personally I'm going to prefer a table to be nicely formatted by
column, so I'll do something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
sed -E $'s! - !\t-\t!' | sort -k2,2 | column -t -s $'\t'
* Babe I'm Gonna Live You - Led Zeppelin
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- Blackbird - The Beatles
* End Of The Line - The Traveling Willburys
...
That looks nice too, yes - but I like the older style more for this very
list.
But: Could you please explain me the command? It could be useful for
other list I have.
--
Take Care,
Chris
Thanks again!
Vlad
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