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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell Programming Question - sort
Message-ID: <5734@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Mar 90 06:52:09 GMT
References: <751@ncs.dnd.ca>
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In article <751@ncs.dnd.ca>,
	marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
)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, [...]

sed 's/\(.*\) \(..\)$/\2 \1/' | sort | sed 's/\(..\) \(.*\)/\2 \1/'
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