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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to sort a string with numbers Post 302152799 by ghostdog74 on Friday 21st of December 2007 09:52:09 AM
Old 12-21-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
Code:
"cat file | sort -rn"

Code:
# sort -rn file
20.982342864 343
19.234355545 222
17.8767787 200
1.5567846 345
Hello world

my output puts the "hello world" at the bottom, which is not what OP wants. is your output the same?
 

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PLCALC_WORLD(3plplot)						    PLplot API						     PLCALC_WORLD(3plplot)

NAME
plcalc_world - Calculate world coordinates and corresponding window index from relative device coordinates SYNOPSIS
plcalc_world(rx, ry, wx, wy, window) DESCRIPTION
Calculate world coordinates, wx and wy, and corresponding window index from relative device coordinates, rx and ry. Redacted form: General: plcalc_world(rx, ry, wx, wy, window) Perl/PDL: Not available? This function is used in example 31. ARGUMENTS
rx (PLFLT, input) Input relative device coordinate (ranging from 0. to 1.) for the x coordinate. ry (PLFLT, input) Input relative device coordinate (ranging from 0. to 1.) for the y coordinate. wx (PLFLT *, output) Pointer to the returned world coordinate for x corresponding to the relative device coordinates rx and ry. wy (PLFLT *, output) Pointer to the returned world coordinate for y corresponding to the relative device coordinates rx and ry. window (PLINT *, output) Pointer to the returned last defined window index that corresponds to the input relative device coordinates (and the returned world coordinates). To give some background on the window index, for each page the initial window index is set to zero, and each time plwind(3plplot) is called within the page, world and device coordinates are stored for the window and the window index is incre- mented. Thus, for a simple page layout with non-overlapping viewports and one window per viewport, window corresponds to the view- port index (in the order which the viewport/windows were created) of the only viewport/window corresponding to rx and ry. However, for more complicated layouts with potentially overlapping viewports and possibly more than one window (set of world coordinates) per viewport, window and the corresponding output world coordinates corresponds to the last window created that fulfils the criterion that the relative device coordinates are inside it. Finally, in all cases where the input relative device coordinates are not inside any viewport/window, then window is set to -1. AUTHORS
Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot. This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere. SEE ALSO
PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources. August, 2012 PLCALC_WORLD(3plplot)
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