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Sorting the data right justified with through awk.
Dear all,
I have a inputfile like some what like this -


1000.98651
1000.96696
999.98904
991.66864
986.51829
986.49467
17.44122
16.74039
16.74021
10.92725

desired output

1000.98651
1000.96696
0999.98904
0991.66864
0986.51829
0986.49467
0017.44122
0016.74039
0016.74021
0010.92725

so that i can sort this in ascending order using sort -n.
thanks in advance.
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so what's your problem? they both look the same to me.
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sorry, that was formatting error.
now i think it looks clear.
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Try this:

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awk -F"." '{printf("%0.4d.%s\n",$1, $2)}' file
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awk -F"." '{printf("%04s.%s\n",$1,$2)}'
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