[PLUG] sort option for 'natural' sequence

[J. Hart]

try this :

cat sample.dat | sed "s|^'\([0-9]*\)'|\1 '\1'|" | sort -n | sed 
"s|^[0-9]* ||" | tee sample.dat.new


On 03/31/2020 08:30 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> sample.dat:
>
> '648',17,'2011-07-11','Insecta','Plecoptera','Chloroperlidae''Suwallia'
> '652',17,'2011-07-11','Insecta','Plecoptera','Pteronarcidae''Pteronarcella' 
>