Sorting text tabular type data

[Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo]

awk

Maybe you can post an example of one of the files



Quoting stayler <stayler at xmtservices.net>:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have an interesting puzzle that I\'d like some advice on.  I have
> several files that are organized into lines, each ending with a LF,
> 0x0a char.  There are 4 groups of characters in each line separated by
> multiple (and variable number of) 0x20 \'space\' characters.  The first
> three groups are simple strings, the last is a string but is numerical.
> 
> I\'d like to strip out the excess spaces in each line and insert some
> other delimiter, single space or comma perhaps. 
> 
> Filtering and sorting are the next step but I\'d like to learn about
> this first part.
> 
> Ideas, suggestions?
> 
> I am sure there is something quite simple to do this but I\'ve rather
> missed out on that part of my Linux education to my chagrin.
> 
> stayler
> 
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Atte,
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Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo
jeansagi at spils.com
jeansagi at netscape.net


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