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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Trying to sort words and numbers associated with them. Post 302507101 by cjcox on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 07:43:06 PM
Old 03-22-2011
Unix/Linux sort can handle fields. Older use +FIELD<type> -FIELD... so
Code:
sort +0 -1 +1n -2

newer sort support the -k option and field positions start at 1 instead of 0.
Code:
sort -k1,1 -k2,2n


Last edited by Franklin52; 03-23-2011 at 04:56 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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