sort

Examples

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voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ cat name.txt 
John:Marketing:5
Mike:Product:2
Anne:Sales:1
Tom:Support:4
Harry:Sales:3

Sort Text in Ascending order

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort name.txt 
Anne:Sales:1
Harry:Sales:3
John:Marketing:5
Mike:Product:2
Tom:Support:4

Sort Text in Descending order

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort -r name.txt 
Tom:Support:4
Mike:Product:2
John:Marketing:5
Harry:Sales:3
Anne:Sales:1

Sort by delimiting first colon

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort -t: -k 2 name.txt 
John:Marketing:5
Mike:Product:2
Anne:Sales:1
Harry:Sales:3
Tom:Support:4

Sort by delimiting first colon and suppress duplicates

Sort by delimiting second colon

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort -t: -k 3 name.txt 
Anne:Sales:1
Mike:Product:2
Harry:Sales:3
Tom:Support:4
John:Marketing:5

Sort + uniq

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voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ cat name.txt 
John:Marketing:5
Mike:Product:2
Anne:Sales:1
Tom:Support:4
Harry:Sales:3
Anne:Sales:1
Tom:Support:4

Sort Unique entries

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort -u name.txt 
Anne:Sales:1
Harry:Sales:3
John:Marketing:5
Mike:Product:2
Tom:Support:4
voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort name.txt | uniq
Anne:Sales:1
Harry:Sales:3
John:Marketing:5
Mike:Product:2
Tom:Support:4

Sort and Count duplicate entries

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort name.txt | uniq -c
      2 Anne:Sales:1
      1 Harry:Sales:3
      1 John:Marketing:5
      1 Mike:Product:2
      2 Tom:Support:4

Sort and Display only duplicate entries

voldemort@IdeaPad:~$ sort name.txt | uniq -cd
      2 Anne:Sales:1
      2 Tom:Support:4