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Created March 24, 2016 21:51
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Sort the sections of a Git config file (and the contents of the sections) alphabetically
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sort-gitconfig.sh
awk '{ if ($1 ~ /^\[/) { section=$0; print $0 } else { printf section; print $0 } }' gitconfig | sort -t ']' -k1,1 | sed 's/\[.\+\]\([^\s]\+\)/\1/' > gitconfig.new
mv gitconfig.new gitconfig
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CervEdin commented Dec 6, 2022

Nice! 🚀

But it fails for keys containing brackets.

Something like this avoids that

awk '{ if ($1 ~ /^\[/) { section=$0; printf "%s\t\n", $0 } else { printf section; print $0 } }' .gitconfig |
  sort -t ']' -k1,1 |
  sed '/\t$/{s@@@;p;d};s@^[^\t]*@@' |
  sponge.sh .gitconfig

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