At 05:04 AM 4/5/2004 -0500, Dick Campbell wrote:
I need to sort a file and preserve the order of tied cases
within the sort key. I can do this with
sort x, stable,
but I need to be in descending order. Gsort
will do this, but does not have the stable option. Can
anyone suggest how to do this?
Does this do what you want?
gen x2 = -x
sort x2, stable
Or maybe
gen id = _n
qsort -x id
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