Sorting text tabular type data

[Joel Hammer]

I find there are few tasks involved in editing text files you can't do
with sed, cut, grep, sort, and tr. When writing a sed script, it is
important to note that you can have multiline scripts and loops with
yes/no decisions, making sed almost like a "real" programming language.
Ignore those fancy one liners. They just cause confusion and awe but don't
really solve your problem (IMHO).
Joel

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:51:07PM -0700, stayler wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> I think this one does most of the trick.  Thanks Joel for putting me on
> the right track.  Now its time for awk I think.....
> 
> sed "s/ \{1,30\}/,/g" file
> 
> stayler
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 15:58:12 -0700 (PDT), stayler wrote:
> 
> >Here is a small example of one of the files.
> >
> >K7ICW         SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH           NV    13125    
> >K7XC          MULTI-LIMITED                NV    1856     
> >KC6UCN        MULTI-LIMITED                NV    8477     
> >N6MI          ROVER                        NV    3968     
> >N7LQ          MULTI-UNLIMITED ALL HIGH     NV    82128    
> >N7ROJ         ROVER                        NV    7722     
> >NW7O          ROVER                        NV    2847     
> >W7PW/R        ROVER                        NV    12       
> >WB6YIY        SINGLE-OP ALL LOW            NV    1020
> >
> >
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