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Sort region by character length using awk in an Emacs buffer.
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awk-sort.el
(defun awk-sort (&optional b e)
"Sort region by character length using awk."
(interactive "r")
(shell-command-on-region b e "awk '{ print length(), $0 | \"sort -n | cut -d\\\\ -f2-\" }'" (current-buffer) t)
)
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