An interesting sort problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 16:58 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> On 11/11/2015 04:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 15:23 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > > How can one tell sort to chose the last word in the line as the
> > > > sort
> > > key?
> > > 
> > > You can't. Field specifiers are relative to the start of the
> > > line.
> > > There
> > > isn't a way to specify them relative to the end of the line.
> > In awk NF is the number of fields in the line, so it's also the
> > index
> > of the last field (fields are numbered from 1). Just a thought.
> > 
> > poc
> Yep!
> I used it in a shell script to achieve what I wanted, and it worked
> just 
> fine.

Good to know.

poc