On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:01:28 +0000, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >I need help sorting some 5000 lines based on the first entry in a CSV - IP >address. When sorting, I need the whole record to be involved in the sort, not >just the IP's.
I long ago gave up trying to decipher the runes to make sort/icetool work properly. Even the exits didn't help sometimes. Flick it to a zLinux instance and use GNU sort - you can use the "dot" as a key separator, and sort in one command. As Martin points out, any header/trailers may (will ) need particular attention. Not too surprisingly the perl monks have also had had a say on this - several times - but I'd forgo perl in this instance. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
