Hi fellow monks,

I wrote a small script which sorts text files after the last column (i.e. lines are separated by a given separator).
I use it mainly to sort a list of file paths by file names ignoring directories names by calling it with '/' as separator:

csort / list.txt

It could be improved by adding some sorting order options, etc. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Usage: csort <separator> (<inputfiles> | < input) > output
use strict;
use warnings;

my $sep = shift or die; # separator to use

my @list;

while (<>) {
    chomp;
    push @list, [ /\A (.*) $sep (.*)/x ];
}

foreach my $aref ( sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] or $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] }
+ @list ) {
    print join ($sep, @$aref), "\n";
}

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In reply to Column sort script by mscharrer

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