Bash: tsort with tie-break
I want to be able to topologically sort a directed graph, but be able to specify the tie-break sort used.
Eg, given:
horse cat
dog cat
elephant cat
cat mouse
mouse snake
dog snake
elephant snake
I would like to sort tie-breaks alphabetically.
tsort
gives the following output:
elephant
dog
horse
cat
mouse
snake
I would like:
dog
elephant
horse
cat
mouse
snake
Is there any easy way to force this behaviour? I cannot alter the source list but can manipulate it before applying tsort. The solution must be bash, but I am not wedded to using tsort itself.
bash sorting directed-acyclic-graphs
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I want to be able to topologically sort a directed graph, but be able to specify the tie-break sort used.
Eg, given:
horse cat
dog cat
elephant cat
cat mouse
mouse snake
dog snake
elephant snake
I would like to sort tie-breaks alphabetically.
tsort
gives the following output:
elephant
dog
horse
cat
mouse
snake
I would like:
dog
elephant
horse
cat
mouse
snake
Is there any easy way to force this behaviour? I cannot alter the source list but can manipulate it before applying tsort. The solution must be bash, but I am not wedded to using tsort itself.
bash sorting directed-acyclic-graphs
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I want to be able to topologically sort a directed graph, but be able to specify the tie-break sort used.
Eg, given:
horse cat
dog cat
elephant cat
cat mouse
mouse snake
dog snake
elephant snake
I would like to sort tie-breaks alphabetically.
tsort
gives the following output:
elephant
dog
horse
cat
mouse
snake
I would like:
dog
elephant
horse
cat
mouse
snake
Is there any easy way to force this behaviour? I cannot alter the source list but can manipulate it before applying tsort. The solution must be bash, but I am not wedded to using tsort itself.
bash sorting directed-acyclic-graphs
I want to be able to topologically sort a directed graph, but be able to specify the tie-break sort used.
Eg, given:
horse cat
dog cat
elephant cat
cat mouse
mouse snake
dog snake
elephant snake
I would like to sort tie-breaks alphabetically.
tsort
gives the following output:
elephant
dog
horse
cat
mouse
snake
I would like:
dog
elephant
horse
cat
mouse
snake
Is there any easy way to force this behaviour? I cannot alter the source list but can manipulate it before applying tsort. The solution must be bash, but I am not wedded to using tsort itself.
bash sorting directed-acyclic-graphs
bash sorting directed-acyclic-graphs
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GesarGesar
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I assume you want to sort by name the key pair that would have the same topology order.
In that case, you could simply perform a "standard" sort before tsort
.
sort file | tsort
The (GNU) version of tsort
I'm using doesn't have an option to do that type of sort.
Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already listsdog cat
beforeelephant cat
, butelephant
still appeared beforedog
in the output oftsort
.
– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
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I assume you want to sort by name the key pair that would have the same topology order.
In that case, you could simply perform a "standard" sort before tsort
.
sort file | tsort
The (GNU) version of tsort
I'm using doesn't have an option to do that type of sort.
Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already listsdog cat
beforeelephant cat
, butelephant
still appeared beforedog
in the output oftsort
.
– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
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I assume you want to sort by name the key pair that would have the same topology order.
In that case, you could simply perform a "standard" sort before tsort
.
sort file | tsort
The (GNU) version of tsort
I'm using doesn't have an option to do that type of sort.
Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already listsdog cat
beforeelephant cat
, butelephant
still appeared beforedog
in the output oftsort
.
– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
add a comment |
I assume you want to sort by name the key pair that would have the same topology order.
In that case, you could simply perform a "standard" sort before tsort
.
sort file | tsort
The (GNU) version of tsort
I'm using doesn't have an option to do that type of sort.
I assume you want to sort by name the key pair that would have the same topology order.
In that case, you could simply perform a "standard" sort before tsort
.
sort file | tsort
The (GNU) version of tsort
I'm using doesn't have an option to do that type of sort.
answered Nov 15 '18 at 14:54
olivoliv
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Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already listsdog cat
beforeelephant cat
, butelephant
still appeared beforedog
in the output oftsort
.
– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
add a comment |
Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already listsdog cat
beforeelephant cat
, butelephant
still appeared beforedog
in the output oftsort
.
– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
Correct. Is tsort always guaranteed to produce the same output for an alphabetised source list? It seems like it might do that, but by accident rather than design.
– Gesar
Nov 15 '18 at 15:04
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
I don't know if this is by design, but that's how I used it and so far so good ;-)
– oliv
Nov 15 '18 at 15:11
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already lists
dog cat
before elephant cat
, but elephant
still appeared before dog
in the output of tsort
.– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
This isn't guaranteed to work (in fact, it doesn't work when I try it). The original input already lists
dog cat
before elephant cat
, but elephant
still appeared before dog
in the output of tsort
.– chepner
Nov 15 '18 at 15:44
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