Re: Sort the file

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 04/29/04

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:25:40 -0400

In article <c6pn28$7up$1@pcls3.std.com>,
demas@TheWorld.com (Charles Demas) wrote:

> untested
>
> grep -n infile | sort -k 2.1,2.1 1n | awk '{print $2}'

Aren't you missing an argument to grep -- the regexp? I guess you meant

grep -n '.*' infile | ...

But that seems like a strange way to do what "cat -n infile" can do.

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