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- From: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees)
- Subject: Re: Sort problem . .
- Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:46:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.044600.27445@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
- References: <1992Jul27.123415.977@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul27.140110.846@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Jul28.095415.4640@prl.dec.com> <1992Jul28.102938.12375@news.eng.convex.com>
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- Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
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- >From the keyboard of boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts):
- >:In article <1992Jul27.140110.846@news.eng.convex.com>, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
- >:> ps axu | ( sed 1q ; sort -nr +3 )
- >:Eh? Since when does sed do `unbuffered' reads?
- >:Nice idea though...
- >Hey -- it surprised the heck out of me too! But it did indeed work
- >without losing lines on a test run. Unforunately, I ran but one test,
- >and must have just gotten lucky, cause now I lose lines.
- >This does seem to work:
- > ps axu | (read line; echo "$line"; sort +3rn)
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- ps axu | sed 1d | sort -nr +3
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- Sm
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- Scott Merrilees, BHP Information Technology, Newcastle, Australia
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