On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote:
OK, that was too snarky to be helpful.
Paul,
Nah, snarky's okay in today's world. :-)
GNU sort has a couple different options for this sort of thing. The -n option
does a basic numeric sort. It works fine on a list of basic numbers.
And that was my problem: I wrote the awk script incorrectly so the first
column (sampid) was a string rather than an integer.
The -V option is newer and was designed to sort the more complex numeric
strings in product versions.
I saw that option in the sort man page and missed its significance for what
I wanted to do:
-V, --version-sort
natural sort of (version) numbers within text
that's why I didn't try it.
Thanks very much.
Stay healthy,
Rich
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