Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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What is an example of a proper use in Ubunto-Linux of these utilities: sort, uniq, cut, paste? Show syntax and output.

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Sort in Ubuntu-Linux

Sort command in Ubuntu-Linux is very helpful to sort the text file by arranging text lines in a particular order. The order can be set according to file size, file type, modified date,  name either alphabetically or numerically.

Syntax:

$ sort [options] file_name.txt

available options are

-n : To sort numerically

-r : To sort in reverse order

-R : To sort in random order

.-M : Sorting according to months

-k : Sort as per specified column

-u : Sort with deleting duplicate

-f : Ignore case while sorting

-h : Sort according to human numeric values

Example

To perform sorting, first, create a file named myFile.txt using cat command

Command : 
$ cat > myFile.txt
java
cobol
python
visual basic
php
html

Now use the sort command to sort file alphabetically

Command : 
$ sort myFile.txt
Output :
cobol 
html 
java 
php
python 
visual basic

 

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