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Re: Feature suggestion: sort --skip-header-lines=N (and perhaps --skip-t
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Stephane Chazelas |
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Re: Feature suggestion: sort --skip-header-lines=N (and perhaps --skip-trailer-lines?) |
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Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:30:48 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
2015-10-26 11:40:54 +0000, Pádraig Brady:
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> Summary is you can do this with GNU sed:
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> ( echo 99 ; seq 10 ) | ( sed -u 1q ; sort -n )
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Or POSIXly:
awk 'NR <= 3 {print; next}; {print | "sort -n"}'
Or:
(IFS= read -r line && printf '%s\n' "$line"; sort -n)
On systems that still have the "line" utility:
(line; sort -n)
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Stephane