[PLUG] sort option for 'natural' sequence

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com wrote:

> Everyone has different toolbox and regexp logic wired in their brains.
> I prefer to break things down somewhat step by step - and think ahead - mostly
> it is worth it.

I'm just the opposite; use the simple tool: -V option to GNU sort.

[bash]$ cat <<XXX | sort -V
>> 10
>> 18
>> 800
>> 7
>> 8
>> 1
>> 1000
>> XXX
1
7
8
10
18
800
1000

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Paul Heinlein
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