SORTING THE CONTENT OF THE FILE

Aim

To write a shell program to sort the given names in a file.

Algorithm:

1.Start the program
2.Get the file name in which sorting is to due
3.Enter the names to be sorted.
4.Using while loop, the names are compared using”>>’ and names are sorted
5.Display the sorted names.

Program:

echo “enter the file name”

read x

echo “enter the number of names”

read num
echo “enter $num strings” while test $num -gt 0

do

read name

echo $name >> $x

num = expr $num -1’

done

echo the sorted names are:

sort $x

rm $x

Output:

Enter the file name
Sort 1
Enter the number of names:
5

Enter 5 strings:
Computer
History
Biology
Maths

The sorted strings are:
Biology
Computer
Maths
History

Result:

Thus the program is written and executed for sorting the content of the file.