On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 15:51 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > The command 'sort -n -r -k 3 number-samples-per-site.txt -o sorted' is an > example. And, the reverse option is ignored when I specify a numeric format. > (Whether the -k option has a space before the 3 makes no difference here.) > > I'm not seeing what I'm missing.
I think you're missing the '-t' option. Try sort -n -r -t '|' -k 3 number-samples-per-site.txt -o sorted _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug