[PLUG] Sort numbers in 'natural' order

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun May 31 17:54:58 UTC 2015


On Sun, 31 May 2015, Roderick Anderson wrote:

> I think this is the solution.  Been a long time since I looked at the
> (very long pipe) script it was in so YMMV.
>
>    sort -t . -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n

Rod,

   Thanks! That does the trick. I don't understand the keydefs, but as long
as it does the job I'll take it on faith. :-)

Much appreciated,

Rich



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