[PLUG] Sort numbers in 'natural' order

Roderick A Anderson raanders42 at gmail.com
Sun May 31 18:05:55 UTC 2015


Well I didn't think it up my self so I had to look it up again.

http://larsmichelsen.com/open-source/quickie-sort-ip-addresses-on-linux-command-line-bash/

Rod
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On May 31, 2015 10:55:44 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> 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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