How to sort on right most column
Bill Petro
rock at warp.Eng.Sun.COM
Wed May 15 11:04:26 AEST 1991
How could I do this using either the sort command, or perl or awk?
I have the following data in this format - I want to sort it on the
right most column. The columns are not tab delimited, and some of the
columns have arbitrary numbers of words (specifically the third column
from the left, column c). Sort assumes that you start numbering on the
left, and count from 0. How would you start with the right most
column, column e?
0 1 2 3 4
a b c c e
FOO BAR ACE CORPORATION SUNNYVALE 2.00
FOO BAR ACER COMPUTED COMPANY MILPITAS 20.00
FOO BAR APOLLO COMPUTER, INC. CHELMSFORD 1.00
FOO BAR APPLE COMPUTER, INC. CUPERTINO 8.00
FOO BAR BOEING TUKWILA 53.00
FOO BAR BOEING COMPUTER SERVICES EDDYSTONE 2.00
FOO BAR CITIBANK N. A. ANDOVER 4.00
FOO BAR CITIBANK NORTH AMERICA LONG ISLAND CITY 26.00
Thanks!
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Bill Petro {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
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