> "PB" == Pádraig Brady writes:
PB> All good suggestions. I'll at least add an example along the lines of:
PB> awk '{print $NF, $0}' | sort -k1,1 | cut -f2- -d' '
OK, also say what it's doing. Not everybody knows awk.
Also join(1) needs a tip added. Users might want to join on
e.g., the
On 23/04/2024 11:14, Dan Jacobson wrote:
In (info "(coreutils) sort invocation") be sure to add an example of a
way or workaround for counting fields from the end of the line. E.g., we
want to sort on the last field, but don't know for sure how many fields
a line might contain. E.g., sort by
In (info "(coreutils) sort invocation") be sure to add an example of a
way or workaround for counting fields from the end of the line. E.g., we
want to sort on the last field, but don't know for sure how many fields
a line might contain. E.g., sort by surname, when lines consist of First
