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Date:      Sun, 23 May 2010 22:40:41 +0200
From:      Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tricky perl question - ascending order
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The solution [i asked Randal L. Schwartz, because i didn't worked, and
he said he just forgot the "-e", now it works!!]:

perl -00 -e 'print map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [$_,
tr/\n//], <>' < before.txt > after.txt

Thank you!!


> >>>>> "Jozsi" == Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Jozsi> So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things
> Jozsi> are under a "SOMETHING-XX"
> 
> So you just want paragraphs ordered by line count?
> 
> Something like this, untested:
> 
> perl -00 'print map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [$_, tr/\n//], <>' <input >output
> 
> Keywords: Schwartzian Transform, paragraph mode.
> 




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