Outstanding!!! Thanks very much to you, Adrian, Rodney, John, and Stewart.
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> Stewart Leicester wrote:
>
> > perl -lne 'print "$ARGV*$_"' file1 file2 | sort -t* -k2,99
> > newfile
>
> Or just do it in awk:
>
> awk '{printf("%s*%s\n",FILENAME,$0)}' file1 file2 | sort -t*
> -k2,999
>
> Gotta say I was surprised that the '*' delimeter in the sort
> command didn't need to be escaped with \, but it doesn't.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken
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