Re: Sorting using two field separators

[Dennis Williamson]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 5:13 PM tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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> On Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 9:47 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <
> fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > u need also like u tried ors \0 for sort -z later
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 23:41 tolugboji tolugboji@protonmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > >
> > > On Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 9:17 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <
> > >
> > > fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > try -v RS='\0' not without -v, try
> > > >
> > > > awk -v .. '..'
> > >
> > > You need to be more specific because with
> > >
> > > | awk -F'[-.]' -v RS='\0' '{print $(NF-1), $0}' |
> > >
> > > the output is stopping at the first entry.
>
> This is the latest thing I am testing
>
>    echo
>    find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png"
>    echo
>    find "$fdir" -type f -name "${fnam}-*.png" -print0 |
>      awk -F'[-.]' '{print $(NF-1), $0}' RS='\0' ORS='\0' |
>      sort -nk 1,1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-
>    echo
>
> I also had a go with ORS='\n'
>
> Output:
>
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-05.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-06.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-07.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-08.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-09.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-10.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-11.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-12.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-13.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-1.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-2.png
> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-3.png
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> /home/flora/edvart/docs/schimmel-04.png
>
> The printing stops at the first file entry.
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sort -z use nulls as delimiters for both input and output. At some point
you need to either consume each output entry (with xargs -0 for example) or
print them out with some separator such as newlines for human consumption.

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