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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Sort Floating Numbers Using the Sort Command? Post 302421795 by durden_tyler on Sunday 16th of May 2010 08:51:08 AM
Old 05-16-2010
Works fine for me.
How does it sort in your case ?

Quote:
Originally Posted by daniel.gbaena
...
I need to get this:

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)....
Here's the test -

Code:
$ 
$ 
$ cat -n f9
     1    user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
     2    user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
     3    user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
     4    user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
     5    user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1
$ 
$ sort  -t : -k 3,3nr -k 4,4nr -k 5,5nr f9
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
$ 
$

What's your OS and sort version ? Do you have GNU sort ?

tyler_durden
 

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