An interesting sort problem

[Andrew Haley]

On 13/11/15 02:38, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Awk can do what you want:
> {
>      lines[NR]=$NF " " $0
> }
> 
> END {
>      PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@val_type_asc"
>      for line in lines {
>          j=index(line, " ")
>          print substr(line, j+1)
> }

Close, but no cigar.

#!/bin/awk -f
{
     lines[NR]=$NF " " $0
}

END {
     PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@val_type_asc"
     for (i in lines) {
	 line = lines[i]
         j=index(line, " ")
         print substr(line, j+1)
     }
}

Needs awk >= 4.0

Andrew.