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bash read file

Posted 05-24-2013 at 09:20 AM by NullTerminator
Updated 05-24-2013 at 11:26 AM by NullTerminator

Sample of while loop to process input
Code:
#!/bin/sh
##################################
# Purpose: Cleanup any confirmation reports (*.pdf) older than xx days
# Called By:  batch daily cleanup process,  /Applications/xyz/distributor.sh
# Author: jeb
# Date: 4/20/07
# Comments: The while loop is preferred over the find -exec rm {} syntax because it
#           does not spawn a process for each file to be deleted.
#           The script expects
...
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bash sort using a tab delimiter

Posted 09-07-2012 at 01:49 PM by NullTerminator
Updated 09-07-2012 at 02:49 PM by NullTerminator
Tags bash, sort, tab

There are several ways to sort things when fields are tab separated. The simplest I have found is
Code:
TAB=`echo -e "\t"`
sort -t"$TAB" -k 5,3 scrambledFile.tsv > sorted.tsv
syntax may vary for dos shells, possibly as
Code:
set tab=echo "\t"
sort -t"%tab%" -k5,3 scrambledFile.tsv > sortedFile.tsv
As of this posting, both variations are subject to verification of the syntax.
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