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# 8  
Old 05-13-2014
For a numeric sort, there's no need to remove leading zeroes.

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Alister
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# 9  
Old 05-13-2014
Thank you all for your attemps to help, but I give up. Clearly I haven't communicated what I need. I'll try another way.
# 10  
Old 05-14-2014
Did you try setting that CONVFMT variable?
Code:
awk -F, '{$1+=0}1' OFS=, CONVFMT="%.0f" file~
12,123  ,456  ,05/12/2014
8806740, ,295 ,05/12/2014

 
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