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I am trying to sort a file alphabetically by the second column of each line, which contain uppercase names. An example file:

1:JOHN:Morgan:90:24 2:MIKE:Smith:95:11 3:JAYSON:Ty:99:9 4:TYLER:Edward:89:5

This is my bash script:

file="/home/here.txt" while IFS=: read -r f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 do tput cup $f1 0 ;echo "$f2 $f1 $f3 $f4 $f5" done <"$file"

I came up to here to sort them, but this only switches places of f2 with f1.

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You can use this to sort the file by second column of your file alphabetically:

file="/home/here.txt" sort -t":" -k2 $file; # -t is delimeter and -k is column number to sort

Read about sort in man pages to get more info.

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thank you so much. ive been looking everywhere for this

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