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# 8  
Old 02-09-2009
Correct me if am wrong
sort -r will display the result in reverse order... it can be used for sorting numeric values also.. and this cmd seems to be working fine for me...

cat file.txt | sort -r

47
34
27
26
18
# 9  
Old 02-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteboard
sort -r will display the result in reverse order... it can be used for sorting numeric values also.. and this cmd seems to be working fine for me...

cat file.txt | sort -r

47
34
27
26
18
Why exactly do you need a cat here?
# 10  
Old 02-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Why exactly do you need a cat here?

Just for giving input to sort or else we can use this:

sort -r file.txt

i dont think there is any differnce b/w above one and the earlier command i posted... if there is any pls point it out...

Am more than happy to receive comments...Smilie
# 11  
Old 02-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteboard
Just for giving input to sort or else we can use this:

sort -r file.txt

i dont think there is any differnce b/w above one and the earlier command i posted... if there is any pls point it out...

Am more than happy to receive comments...Smilie
Just follow the posted link.
# 12  
Old 02-09-2009
The -n for numeric sort is important.
If "file" contains:
1
10
100
2
20
200
3
30
300

sort -r file
300
30
3
200
20
2
100
10
1

sort -nr file
300
200
100
30
20
10
3
2
1
# 13  
Old 02-09-2009
MySQL Thanks a ton
Thanks methyl... got the difference...

cheers mate....
# 14  
Old 02-09-2009
and if you only want the highest number output...
use tail -n 1 (to get the last one).
Code:
[user@host ~]$ sort -n lines.txt
1
2
3
4
9
12
32
45
50

[user@host ~]$ sort -n lines.txt |tail -n 1
50
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