An interesting sort problem

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 19:38:38 UTC 2015



On 11/27/2015 12:14 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 09:57:11AM -0700, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>> On 11/27/2015 03:29 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> #!/bin/awk -f
>>> {
>>>       lines[NR]=$NF " " $0
>>> }
>>>
>>> END {
>>>       PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@val_type_asc"
>>> #      for (i in lines) {
>           for (i = NR; i >= 1; i--) {
>>>           line = lines[i]
>>>           j=index(line, " ")
>>>           print substr(line, j+1)
>>>       }
>>> }
>> Hi Andrew,
>> manpage for awk does not betray any info on making sort in reverse.
>> What is the incantation in this script to make the sort in reverse?
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Sorry John. It did not sort in reverse :(



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