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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!news
  3. From: Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no
  4. Subject: Re: Sort problem . .
  5. In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:29:38 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.223113*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
  7. Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
  8. Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
  9. References: <1992Jul27.123415.977@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  10.     <1992Jul27.140110.846@news.eng.convex.com>
  11.     <1992Jul28.095415.4640@prl.dec.com>
  12.     <1992Jul28.102938.12375@news.eng.convex.com>
  13. Date: 28 Jul 92 22:31:13
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  16. ! This does seem to work:
  17. ! 
  18. !     ps axu | (read line; echo "$line"; sort +3rn) 
  19.  
  20. Yeah, nice for {,k,z,ba}sh.  Why not simply
  21.  
  22.         ps aux | ( line; sort -rn +3 )
  23.  
  24.   ~~h
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