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From: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Shell Programming Question - sort
Message-ID: <751@ncs.dnd.ca>
Date: 3 Mar 90 04:39:07 GMT
Reply-To: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood)
Organization: DREO, Ottawa, Ontario
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I am trying to sort (using "sort" in Ultrix) based on the last two
characters in a line (which are numeric).  There are a variable number
of characters in a line, and these last two characters are preceded by a
space, there are also a variable number of spaces in a line, so the
number of fields will be variable if space is used as the field
separator.  None of my available texts gives me a clue as to whether a
sort can be done based on the last field in a line, regardless of the
number of fields in the line.  Is there any "sort" option that can 
do this ?

Gordon Marwood
Internet: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca