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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting trying to make an AWK code for ordering numbers in a column from least to highest Post 302353418 by uthay85 on Tuesday 15th of September 2009 10:06:37 AM
Old 09-15-2009
you can get ur output in sort command itself.

sorn -n <filename>

please find the example:

Code:
$more a1
5.6789
2.4578
9.4678
13.5673
1.6589
2.8888
2.7593
124.234
3.3333
5.8990
99.234234
100.23432
2343
15799.00

Code:
$sort -n a1
1.6589
2.4578
2.7593
2.8888
3.3333
5.6789
5.8990
9.4678
13.5673
99.234234
100.23432
124.234
2343
15799.00
$

Last edited by vgersh99; 09-15-2009 at 11:25 AM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
 

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