cat sort(1) sort floating point numbers?

I tried sorting a file with a column of floating point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However, the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first digit only. TZAV cat numbers 3.895686170464136E-016 6.790214437463702E-003 4.163481430190832E-016 2.224131318975909E-002 4.024567914829249E-016

Re: cat sort(1) sort floating point numbers?

On Monday 03 October 2011 14:05:42 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I tried sorting a file with a column of floating point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However, the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first digit only. sort -g Due to the GNU project's obsession with info