Re: Help with sorting


Subject: Re: Help with sorting
From: Arthur Corliss (acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 12:28:00 AKST


On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 jonr@destar.net wrote:

>
> I cannot code and need a way to parse out a long list, here is a snippet
> of that list.
>
> ('C952tenblpl.zap2it.com', 'TENBLPL', '952'),
> ('C953tenblox.zap2it.com', 'TENBLOX', '953'),
> ('C99oln.zap2it.com', 'OLN', '99'),
> ('C9loor009.zap2it.com', 'LOOR009', '9'),
>
> I want to be able to parse on the last number of each one of these lines
> and sort them from 1-953. Can someone give me a hand with this?

cat $file | sort -k 3 -n -r | awk '{ print $NF }' | cut -d\' -f 2

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