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# 1  
Old 08-13-2008
List number in decending order using AWK
Hi All,

Can anyone show me how to list the below numbers in decending order?
I have a code to find out whats the largest number though but can it be modified to in-corporate in function ?
Thanks in advance

Input:

20
30
10
40
50

Output:

50
40
30
20
10

Code:
BEGIN{
F[1] = 20;
F[2] = 30;
F[3] = 10;
F[4] = 40;
F[5] = 50;
}
{
for (i=1 ; i<4 ; i++) {
        if (F[i] > HIGH_F) {HIGH_F = F[i]}

}
}
END{printf("Largest number is %s",HIGH_F) }

# 2  
Old 08-13-2008
The mawk manual page has an example isort implementation in awk.
# 3  
Old 08-13-2008
why not use 'sort'?

'sort -r inputfile'
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