[Durham] another sort question - numbers in slashes

Nick durham-lug at njw.me.uk
Thu Nov 7 00:42:02 UTC 2013


Hi Dougie,

> I can't work out how to sort on the switchname and numerically sort on the
> switchport. I don't know what I'm missing, but I'm missing it, whatever it
> is.

Can you zero-pad the switch bit? So 1/0/2 becomes 01/0/02? That 
would probably be an easy way to solve it.

If that isn't easy from the file creation end, you could use awk to 
do it for you in a pipeline. If you know awk that's pretty easy, if 
not ask me and I'll come up with an incomprehensible but concise bit 
for you :)

Nick



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