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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to sort when there is variable length decimal points.? Post 302830957 by rveri on Wednesday 10th of July 2013 12:02:45 AM
Old 07-10-2013
Sorry my bad! I am able to figure it out now,
I was trying sorting this values which were in column 5th, However at a point the 4rth and 5th column touching together and it was making one column sort , so the output was not coming right.

Yoda, Don, thanks. Don, You are right, OS X , is correct. and the command is correct. my data file had problem.

Thanks Jim , able to figure it out.

I was trying sort -rnk 5 and the output was not coming as expected:
Code:
cmihpu28 :  C2PDI03 :: 75.894    Days::
cmihpu29 :  C2PDI10 :: 75.893    Days::
cmihpu38 :  C2PDI05 :: 75.893    Days::
talhpu27 :  A2DAS   :: 73.242    Days::
talhpu28 :  C2SPO   :: 52.292    Days::
cmihpu82 :  POSAS   :: 49.152    Days::
cmihpu82 :  ARTDAS  :: 34.176    Days::
cmihpu83 :  ARTDB   :: 11.386    Days::
talhpu27 :  A3TAS   :: 0.647     Days::
talhpu28 :  B3TAS   :: 0.646     Days::
cmihpu12 :  COMWP981:: 318.889   Days::
cmihpu12 :  COMWD981:: 339.943   Days::
cmihpu81 :  DVFLP981:: 456.457   Days::



Actually sort -rn workingg as expected. The problem with the file which has disorder in few columns that I was trying ,
Code:
sort -rnk 5

Code:
sort -rn file1
456.470
456.469
456.468
456.467
456.467
456.466
456.465
305.932
172.089
144.179
144.130
111.578
111.573
111.572
111.572
87.211
87.175
87.174
86.905
86.905
75.898
75.895
75.894
75.894
75.893
# uname -a
HP-UX srvhp004 B.11.23 U ia64 899690123 unlimited-user license



Thanks all.
Last edited by rveri; 07-10-2013 at 03:10 AM..
 

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dlasrt

dlasrt.f(3)							      LAPACK							       dlasrt.f(3)

NAME

       dlasrt.f -

SYNOPSIS

   Functions/Subroutines
       subroutine dlasrt (ID, N, D, INFO)
	   DLASRT

Function/Subroutine Documentation
   subroutine dlasrt (characterID, integerN, double precision, dimension( * )D, integerINFO)
       DLASRT

       Purpose:

	    Sort the numbers in D in increasing order (if ID = 'I') or
	    in decreasing order (if ID = 'D' ).

	    Use Quick Sort, reverting to Insertion sort on arrays of
	    size <= 20. Dimension of STACK limits N to about 2**32.

       Parameters:
	   ID

		     ID is CHARACTER*1
		     = 'I': sort D in increasing order;
		     = 'D': sort D in decreasing order.

	   N

		     N is INTEGER
		     The length of the array D.

	   D

		     D is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (N)
		     On entry, the array to be sorted.
		     On exit, D has been sorted into increasing order
		     (D(1) <= ... <= D(N) ) or into decreasing order
		     (D(1) >= ... >= D(N) ), depending on ID.

	   INFO

		     INFO is INTEGER
		     = 0:  successful exit
		     < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value

       Author:
	   Univ. of Tennessee

	   Univ. of California Berkeley

	   Univ. of Colorado Denver

	   NAG Ltd.

       Date:
	   November 2011

       Definition at line 89 of file dlasrt.f.

Author
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