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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Sort Floating Numbers Using the Sort Command? Post 302421784 by daniel.gbaena on Sunday 16th of May 2010 06:36:22 AM
Old 05-16-2010
How to Sort Floating Numbers Using the Sort Command?

Hi to all.

I'm trying to sort this with the Unix command sort.
Code:
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1

I need to get this:

Code:
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1

I want to sort it at first by the third row, at second by the fourth row and at least by the fifth row (using ":" as separator). To do it I'm trying to use this (but it doesn't works):

Code:
cat file_contains_example | sort -nr -t":" -k3 -k4 -k5

What can't I do to solve this problem? (I prefer to use sort)

Thank's for read.

Last edited by radoulov; 05-16-2010 at 10:27 AM.. Reason: Added code tags.
 

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