Sort Numbers in ascending orders

Raynon · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2007

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 ?

kapilraj · #2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007

cat filename | sort -kn1

I hv no idea to use arrays.

Raynon · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007

Hi Kap,

What does the -kn1 stand for ?

zazzybob · #4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007

$ echo "8,56,15,37,21" | tr ',' '\n' | sort -k1,1n | paste -s -d',' -
8,15,21,37,56

Cheers
ZB

ghostdog74 · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007

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]

Raynon · #6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007

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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