Next Tricks of the Wizards 126

Schwartzian Transform

Well-known to Unix shell programmers:

         # Sort file names by file size
         ls -l | sort -n +4 | awk '{print $NF}'
         # Sort output of SOMETHING from most frequent to least
         SOMETHING | uniq -c 
           | sort -nr | awk '{$1=""; print}'


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