03-28-2008
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Originally Posted by
ahjiefreak
Hi,
I have a simple question on bash.
If i printed out something like below
echo -e $q"\t\t\t"$r"\t\t\t"$s"\t\t\t"$u"\t\t\t" |sort -r >>test.txt
It cant able to sort the $q value. I tried on -nr option but still the same. For your info, the $q value is actually a floating point. I would like to sort it accordingly.
Please advise. Thanks.
If I understand your question correctly Echo is processing one line at a time so you are sorting one line then outputting it to a file which really has no effect with the sort.
Create the file then sort it with sort -rn -o test.txt test.txt
eg test.txt
13.3 b
12.3 a
10.344 c
10.3 4
sort -rn test.txt
13.3 b
12.3 a
10.344 c
10.3 4
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