help with shell script

[Parv]

in message <20051013053543.51718.qmail at web60016.mail.yahoo.com>,
wrote Peter Matulis thusly...

Could your please wrap lines around 69 or so characters?

> What I need is the size as the first item (not the second) on each
> line.  Then I can use sort.

You can easily specify the column|key to sort on via -k flag ...

  { echo "polka 1" ; echo "dot 4"; } \
  | sort -k2,2nr



  - Parv

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