On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:42:30PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Doug Kearns wrote: > > > You could replace the awk invocation with +'/^$/+1' > > Thanks for the information. May I ask you another question regarding awk, > please? My wife is a linguist and she would for some of her research > retrograde sort (i.e., sorting by words taken from the other end), like > this. Unsorted set of words: > > pine > mutt > netscape > kmail > > should be sorted in this set: > > pine > netscape > kmail > mutt >
<snip> rev filename | sort | rev Regards, Doug