Aimee Cardenas wrote:
Hi, All!
Hello,
I have a file with two important columns in it separated by spaces.
I'll call these col1 and col2. I need to sort the data by col2 and then
print col1 & col2 to a file. I know I CAN do it with perl, but which
way is faster for this kind of processing? Perl or Awk? I know with
awk, I can find a one-liner for the command line and I could probably do
that with perl, too (I'm just now refreshing myself on perl command line
options), but I just thought I'd get some experienced opinions on the
best way to do it.
Thanks in advance. May your sky be filled with perly clouds! ;-)
Why just limit yourself to AWK or Perl? What about cut(1), join(1),
sort(1), etc.?
John
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