The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to have a way to tell cut and sort, and for that matter > anything else which likewise deals with fields, to count them beginning > from the end of the line. > > Is there a way to do this which I have missed? If not, is there a chance > of such a capability being added?
awk -F/ '{ printf "%s/%s\n", $NF, %0 }' | sort -t/ -k1,1 | cut -d/ -f2- (Or use perl.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils