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I am trying to sort a list of names followed by another string such as:
John Doe
AVAIL
Sara Doe
CALL
Jim Doe
AVAIL
I am trying to sort these by name but can't seem to figure it out with sort. Can someone provide some guidance?
My final output would look like this:
Jim Doe
AVAIL
John Doe
AVAIL
Sara Doe
CALL
Much appreciated!
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To sort lines of text files, we use the sort command in the Linux system. The sort command is used to prints the lines of its input or concatenation of all files listed in its argument list in sorted order. The operation of sorting is done based on one or more sort keys extracted from each line of input.
Bash Sort Files Alphabetically By default, the ls command lists files in ascending order. To reverse the sorting order, pass the -r flag to the ls -l command, like this: ls -lr . Passing the -r flag to the ls -l command applies to other examples in this tutorial.
Another way to sort multiple files simultaneously is to pipe the find command output to sort and use the --files0-from= option in the sort command. Specify the -print0 option in find to end file name with the NUL character and ensure the program properly reads the file list.
The sort command is a command-line utility for sorting lines of text files. It supports sorting alphabetically, in reverse order, by number, by month, and can also remove duplicates.
Probably far from optimal, but
sed -r ':r;/(^|\n)$/!{$!{N;br}};s/\n/\v/g' names | sort | sed 's/\v/\n/g'
seems to do the job (names is the file with records). This allows records of arbitrary length, not just 2 lines.
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