tpipe instructions for newbies

[jsampsontheumpteenth]

For newbies, are there instructions for writing tpipe commands? There is a long list of parameters but I can find no examples how to write the commands. For example, how do I make it sort lines of a text file, assuming that it can do that?

 

[Joe Caverly]

The only instructions for writing tpipe commands comes from this forum.

A search of the forum will provide you with how others are using tpipe.

For myself, I have created a few aliases to assist me with using tpipe;

pdf2txt=tpipe /input=%1 /simple=76
RemoveBlanksFromStartOfLine=tpipe /simple=12
RemoveHTML=tpipe /simple=16
RemoveMultipleWhiteSpace=tpipe /simple=19

In answer to your question, using the following text file;

R:\>type test.txt
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten

Use the following to sort the above file;

R:\>type test.txt | tpipe /sort=2,0,0,1,40
eight
five
four
nine
one
seven
six
ten
three
two

To make things easier for myself, I convert the tpipe command into an alias;

alias mysort=tpipe /sort=2,0,0,1,40

Now, I can sort the file as before;

R:\>type test.txt | mysort 
eight
five
four
nine
one
seven
six
ten
three
two

I prefer to pipe the file.
You can also;

R:\>tpipe /input=test.txt /sort=2,0,0,1,40
eight
five
four
nine
one
seven
six
ten
three
two

YMMV

Joe

 

[Joe Caverly]

Here's a good thread on using tpipe to perform multiple sorts;

Interesting TPIPE sort algorithm artifact

Joe