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Old 01-17-2007
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Hi All,

I am new to Shell programming. I have problems creating a csh script which can sort numbers in ascending orders using array.
For eg, given the following numbers: 8, 56, 15, 37, 21.
I would want the output to be in the following: 8,15,21,37,56.

Can anybody help me with this ?
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cat filename | sort -kn1

I hv no idea to use arrays.
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Hi Kap,

What does the -kn1 stand for ?
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$ echo "8,56,15,37,21" | tr ',' '\n' | sort -k1,1n | paste -s -d',' -
8,15,21,37,56

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If you have Python:
Code:
echo "8,56,15,37,21" | python -c "print sorted(map(int,raw_input().split(',')))"
output:
Code:
[8, 15, 21, 37, 56]
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Hi ,

Can anybody tell me what does the syntax "tr" , "k1" , "1n" mean in the below code ?

echo "8,56,15,37,21" | tr ',' '\n' | sort -k1,1n | paste -s -d',' -
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Do you have access to man pages? Can't you look these up there? Come on, the point of these forums is not to explain each and every command, is it?
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