Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:35:21 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Peter Matulis <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: help with shell script Message-ID: <20051013073521.GB957@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20051013053543.51718.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051012204909.J78693@wolf.pjkh.com> <20051013053543.51718.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com>
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in message <20051013053543.51718.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com>,
wrote Peter Matulis thusly...
Could your please wrap lines around 69 or so characters?
> What I need is the size as the first item (not the second) on each
> line. Then I can use sort.
You can easily specify the column|key to sort on via -k flag ...
{ echo "polka 1" ; echo "dot 4"; } \
| sort -k2,2nr
- Parv
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