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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to sort on right most column
Message-ID: <1991May22.191522.19709@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 22 May 91 19:15:22 GMT
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>From the keyboard of felps@convex.com (Robert Felps):
>:I don't know of any way to sort based on right to left. But you might try
>

With awk, $NF is the last field. So pipe the file through awk, prepending
the last field ($NF) to the whole line ($0), separated by something wierd,
say ^B. Pipe this to sort, then pipe to a sed to ditch characters up to and
including the ^B.
As I think of it, the first awk could be a sed filter too.

Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341