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How do I sort command-line output?
I'm trying to use du to sort the output by filesize, but it doesn't looks like there's an option for that.
Can I pipe it into another command to handle the sorting?
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Command-line sort and copy text files to one single file renders an error
I stumbled on question 217394 which explains how to copy files sorted alphabetically into one single file. Trying to implement the command myself rendered the following error message:
The system ...
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Reverse order using command
Is there a way i use the ps --sort option on a linux to display the processes in reverse order based on the process ID or is there another command i can use for this?
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Sorting files based on a timestamp within the file
I have a bunch of files which contain an ascii header with a time stamp WITHIN the file, followed by a large chunck of binary data. I would like to list the files sorted by this time stamp, at the ...
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order for loop output command prompt
I'm using the following command to list some of my favorite videos in a directory (and redirect the output into a text file):
for %i in (*avi *.mkv *mp4) do @echo %~ni
I'd like to alphabetically ...
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How do I re-sort a list of files grouped by directory?
From within a DOS batch file, how can I crudely re-sort a text file containing a manually maintained list of source files, so those files listed (from the same directory) in the small example extract ...
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specify the sort order in “copy /b *.dat foo” in Windows cmd
Normally, when I do a copy /b *.data foo in Windows cmd, the *.data files are catenated in the sorted order into the destination file foo. This matches my desired behavior.
However, I just met a ...
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Joining text files with 600M+ lines
I have two files, huge.txt and small.txt. huge.txt has around 600M rows and it's 14 GB. Each line has four space separated words (tokens) and finally another space separated column with a number. ...
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When your field-terminating char appears within field values
I've had a very colorful morning learning the innerparts of Linux's sort command, and have come across yet another issue that I can't seem to find an answer for in the documentation.
I'm currently ...
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SORT empties my file?
I'm attempting to sort a csv on my machine, but I seem to be erasing the contents each time I use the sort command. I've basically created a copy of my csv lacking the first row:
sed '1d' ...
