-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clive Standbridge <clive.standbri...@myriadgroup.com> writes:
>> > However, I do not know how I can do this with the `sort' >> > function. Is >> > it even possible? (I considered 1<=i<=n through the whole message.) >> >> nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i > > If you want to sort by numeric order instead of alphabetic order, > you should replace > sort -k2 > with > sort -k2n > > PS I learnt a new command today: "nl" which is shorter than "cat -n" :-) Thanks! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- The ends justify the means. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAktkYP0ACgkQM0LLzLt8MhzrLACeOxeTAvYhY3ioqk4o+MBUibmL 85sAmwb6aC6wagtjSr5E6WdU0QX83u2J =qqci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org