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# 1  
Old 04-23-2010
Sorting - Reg.
Hi masters,
I have one doubt,
lets's say file1 has the following contents,
Code:
1
2.0
3.1
5.5
7
5.10
5.9

How to sort these contents to get the o/p like
Code:
1
2.0
3.1
5.5
5.9
5.10
7

Note:5.10 should come after 5.9.
Please provide your comments.
Thank you
Last edited by vgersh99; 04-23-2010 at 10:19 AM.. Reason: code tags, please!
# 2  
Old 04-23-2010
Code:
sort -t '.' -k1,1 -k2,2 -n myFile

# 3  
Old 04-23-2010
I get an error with the code of vgersh99, try:
Code:
sort -t '.' -k 1,1n -k 2,2n file

# 4  
Old 04-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
I get an error with the code of vgersh99, try:
Code:
sort -t '.' -k 1,1n -k 2,2n file

strange - works fine under Solaris9.

you can try - not sure the order matters:
Code:
sort -t '.' -n -k1,1 -k2,2 myFile

Last edited by vgersh99; 04-23-2010 at 12:28 PM..
# 5  
Old 04-23-2010
A quick observation - neither of these solutions work for non-trivial floating point numbers, because the order of the most significant digit is the reverse on the right of the decimal point as compared to the left.

So, while 1034 < 10034 is true; 0.1034 < 0.10034 isn't.

An example is below:

Code:
$
$
$ cat f0
1
2.0
2.01
3.1
5.10034
5.5
7
5.10
5.1034
5.9
$
$ sort -t"." -k1,1n -k2,2n f0
1
2.0
2.01
3.1
5.5
5.9
5.10
5.1034
5.10034
7
$
$

Note that the floating point numbers in red are not in ascending order.

I am sure will be something for this in the shell itself, but here's a simple Perl solution:

Code:
$
$ cat f0
1
2.0
2.01
3.1
5.10034
5.5
7
5.10
5.1034
5.9
$
$ perl -lne 'chomp; push @x, $_; END {print foreach sort @x}' f0
1
2.0
2.01
3.1
5.10
5.10034
5.1034
5.5
5.9
7
$
$

tyler_durden
# 6  
Old 04-23-2010
Code:
$  cat file
1
2.0
2.01
3.1
5.10034
5.5
7
5.10
5.1034
5.9
$ sort -kn1 file
1
2.0
2.01
3.1
5.10
5.10034
5.1034
5.5
5.9
7

# 7  
Old 04-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
strange - works fine under Solaris9.

you can try - not sure the order matters:
Code:
sort -t '.' -n -k1,1 -k2,2 myFile

I got the error with a HP-UX on my work but it works fine on my Debian system.

anbu23 and durden_tyler, the second column must be also sorted in numeric order so the output should be like:
Code:
3.1
5.5
5.9
5.10
5.1034
5.10034
7
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