Alphabetically list a file ?

[e_lub0]

Hi There,

I have recently put together a file [ dictionary ] for use with John. It has took me some time to gather different types of dictionaries, languages excetra. I am now left with a 80 MB file listed with each dictionary a-z consecutivley. Knowing Linux I am sure there must be a way to edit the file [ maybe with vi ? ] as so to list the file as one concurrent dictionary... Also does anyone know of any places I could pick more dictionaries ?

All help or suggestions are accepted thankfully.


Thanks again.

[jasonlambert]

try this (back up the files first!)

cat <file1> >> <bigdictfile>

That would add the contents of <file1> to the end of <bigdictfile>

repeat for all the dictionary files, and you will have 1 big file with all the words in.

Jason

[e_lub0]

Thanks Jason, but that sounds like about two hours work to me [ I should have thought of that when i was compiling the file in the first place ] i have been looking at a command I found "sort" ? would this not sort the file into alphabetical order ????

[CopperTop]

I think he's already got them all in one big file with individual chunks of alphabetically listed entries. He now wants to have all the entries sorted alphebetically.

Try this:

sort dictionary > dictionary-new

or you could have originally done:

 cat file1 file2 file3 | sort > dictionary

*edit: You beat me in, lub0. Yep, try the sort command.

[e_lub0]

Thanks CopperTop, believe me I accidently stumbled across that command, by the looks of it you already new it .


[quote] sort dictionary > dictionary-new

It worked a treat, cheers mate.

[e_lub0]

Hi all,

CopperTop this is mainly aimed at yourself, after running the command

sort dictionary > dictionary-new

I find I now have strange characters at the end of some of the words Example:


asoon^M
aspaththiriyila
aspaththiriyila^M
assiden^M


Strange, any ideas

Many advance thanks for your help.

[Giro]

This is where you have been using files in DOS format on linux, They are carrage returns at the end of each line, You can try this -> http://www.xys.org/~science/forum/messages/21695.html