[Linux-disciples] Re: Sorting lines matching a pattern

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> :g/^\*/!sort

Well, because of the structure of my document, I *could* do

1G	[go to first line]
/^\*	[go to first line that begins with '*']
vG	[select everything up to the last line]
$	[on that last line, make sure to select all the way to the
  end]
:!sort	[sort]

That takes advantage of the particular structure of the
thing, where the last line in the document happens to also
be a '^\*' line. I'd really prefer to select all the '^\*'
lines and sort them together, but this will do for now.

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