Is there a Tool to Sort This Script ?

[Torti-the-Smurf]

Hi dear EAB Reader.

I search for a Tool to sort this Text below. (hole text attached)

It´s the Setup Script for my Lazybench.

If that would be alphabetically sorted, then Lazybench would be faster

Can somebody name a Tool that let me do that ?

Any Ideas

Would be nice

[Samurai_Crow]

There is a sort command but I think it's buggy. It comes with the OS. What version of the OS are you running?

[amigasith]

Linux command line hacking to the rescue

You can use this Linux command line to do the job:

awk -F "/" '{print $NF"|"$0}' Lazybench.menu | sort -i | cut -d "|" -f 2- > Lazybench_sorted.menu

Explanation:

- All lines of the input file Lazybench.menu will be passed to awk, one line after the other
- awk will print out new lines, with the last field of every input line at the beginning of every new line, where "/" is the field delimiter in this command
- sort -i will sort the output (meaning the newly created lines of awk) case insensitive
- Last but not least, cut -d "|" -f 2- will cut off the mentioned "last field" value that awk pre-pended previously

Happy hacking

Edit: Attaching the sorted menu, just in case.

[Korodny]

AFAIK, there is no way to sort this using AmigaOS' default tools. You would have to install some of the GNU text utilities to get this done.

How do you generate that list? It does not seem to contain readme files and stuff like that, so you're apparently not scanning for .info files?

What you could do is:

1. generate a list of all .info files containing only the filenames (not tested, doublecheck the syntax before using it):

list all files lformat="%s" pat="#?.info"

2. Sort that list using the sort command

3. use a batch script that parses the list line by line and (a) locates the filename on disk (b) writes the full path to the file including the filename to a new textfile.

The new textfile would then be the final list you use for Lazybench.

[Torti-the-Smurf]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

There is a sort command but I think it's buggy. It comes with the OS. What version of the OS are you running?

Customiced 3.9 WB with the 3.1.4 Workbench Library.

Linux is out of the question for me. (dont have it)

The File is the "Config" for LazyBench. (it shows LazyBench the Location of my Games) . The File is just a standard Amiga Text file like the Startup-Sequence is.

Would be neat if that Text would be sorted A-Z. Then LazyBench would not have to do it everytime


@ Korodny

I created it by Hand Yes !!!

The Stuff seems so complicated Damn ,I think i am to stupid for that Never used the Sort command once in my Life

[Torti-the-Smurf]

Originally Posted by amigasith

Linux command line hacking to the rescue

You can use this Linux command line to do the job:

awk -F "/" '{print $NF"|"$0}' Lazybench.menu | sort -i | cut -d "|" -f 2- > Lazybench_sorted.menu

Explanation:

- All lines of the input file Lazybench.menu will be passed to awk, one line after the other
- awk will print out new lines, with the last field of every input line at the beginning of every new line, where "/" is the field delimiter in this command
- sort -i will sort the output (meaning the newly created lines of awk) case insensitive
- Last but not least, cut -d "|" -f 2- will cut off the mentioned "last field" value that awk pre-pended previously

Happy hacking

Edit: Attaching the sorted menu, just in case.

THAT WAS AMAZING !!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!


! That saved me from a Headache !


Thank you AmigaSith, you made Lazybench faster now !!!


That´s so cool


All the best to all the EAB People, youre always so nice and helpful !



Thank You !


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[amigasith]

No problem Glad I could help