[PLUG] Sort numbers in 'natural' order

Roderick Anderson raanders42 at gmail.com
Sun May 31 17:46:11 UTC 2015


Rich,

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
-- 
On 05/31/2015 10:25 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>     Thought I found the correct option for sorting CIDR IP addresses, but
> apparently haven't.
>
>     Using -g (general sort), -h (human readable sort), and -n (numeric sort)
> all leave xxx.11 following xxx.100. I thought one of these would put them in
> the same order as would us carbon forms.
>
>     Is there such an option to sort that I've missed?
>
> Rich
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