Re: OT - Bourne shell array sort

[Tod <tod stthomasepc org>]

Tod wrote:
> Without having to write my own, is there a quick way I can sort a two 
> dimensional array on a specific column?  Of course if there's a list 
> that might be better to post this question to I'd appreciate that as well.
>
>
> Thanks - Tod


Ok, poorly formed question.  I know about sort, the -k option was the
first thing I thought of.

Here's an example:

#!/bin/sh

SONGS=`find /mnt/music -type f`


I know at a certain position in the directory structure there is an 
artist, a song, a title, and an album name.  I could use -k along with 
-t to specify a sort on delimiter like:

SONGS=`find /mnt/music -type f |sort -t '/' -k 5,5`

What I was wondering is if I could do this against the SONG array on the 
fly, or if I needed to rerun the find, pumping it through sort with 
different parameters each time.  I'm sure there's a better way but I'm 
blind to it at the moment.

Sorry for bad post, just looking for a quick answer from a large 
experience base.  Thanks for the feedback.