Presort Data Files

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hopewell
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Presort Data Files

Post by hopewell » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:40 pm

Hi,

I think it may be faster to load data files if I presort them. I'm having trouble getting the sort command to work. Specifically when trying to use a pipe field delimiter...

For example, I want to sort the data file test.txt by the second column:

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bash-3.2$ cat test.txt
G|1
H|50
K|22
I|2
B|300
Z|4
P|200
bash-3.2$ sort -t| +1 -1 test.txt > test1.txt
bash: +1: command not found
sort: option requires an argument -- t
Try `sort --help' for more information.
bash-3.2$
How do I tell the sort command I am using the pipe delimiter?

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Re: Presort Data Files

Post by JimKnicely » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:44 pm

Try this:
  • sort --field-separator="|" -k2 -n test.txt > test1.txt
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