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- From: ebel@lsesun3.epfl.ch (Norbert EBEL)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Sorting articles of variable number of lines
- Keywords: Sorting text Files
- Message-ID: <4348@disuns2.epfl.ch>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:29:28 GMT
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- Organization: Laboratoire de Systemes d'Exploitation - E P F Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Hi Netters,
-
- If I want to sort text files containing articles of variable length
- according to a fixed criteria I thought of the following solution:
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- 1) make a very long line with an article putting a special sequence in
- order to remember the end of line, using tr, awk or sed
- 2) sorting according the given criteria using sort
- 3) rechanging the special sequence to nl
- A problem is most utilities allows for limmited length of line
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- Is there any better solution or possibly a utility for that.
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- I found this problem when I saved mails in the wrong incoming order
- in a folder. For that special pourpose there is special option on Sun in
- the mail utility but I can imagine other situations where a similar
- problem will occur.
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- Please answer by e-mail. Thanks
-
- Norbert Ebel
-