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Old 12-11-2012
Sorting a file in descending order when you have 10e- values

Hi,

I am trying to sort the following file in descending order of its fourth column.

Code:
2       1       363828  -2.423225e-03
3       1       363828  4.132763e-03
3       2       363828  8.150133e-03
4       1       363828  4.126890e-03

I use

Code:
sort -k4,4g -r input.txt > output.txt

But the file is still in ascending order. How do I fix this? Thanks!
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Old 12-11-2012
Code:
sort -k4,4gr input.txt

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