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Old 05-10-2009
Sorting data in an ASCII file

Hi,,,
is there anyway to sort the data that I have on an ASCII file, using unix?
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# 2  
Old 05-10-2009
What I mean is if i have a column like this:
1
3
4
8
5
6

and I want to sort it to be

1
3
4
5
6
8
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Old 05-10-2009
You can use the sort command, for example.
 
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