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Old 05-29-2009
reverse sort file

Hi all

I am trying to numerically reverse sort a file but I seem to be having trouble.

Example of file contents:

text1,1
text2,-1
text3,0

I can sort using sort -k 2n -t, filename without any problems.

However I want my results in descending order but using -r in my command doesn't seem to help.
Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 05-29-2009
Code:
sort -t, -k2nr  infile

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Old 05-29-2009
Thanks radoulov. Perfect.
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