On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, P.V.Anthony <[email protected]>wrote:
> <[email protected]>> In this case, "sort -n -t . +2" seems to do the trick > nicely. -n to > > make the sort numeric, and -t . +2 to use period as the field delimiter > > and to sort on the second field. > > Thank you for replying. > > On my Gentoo, the script did not work. Sort does not like "+2". Tried > using -k option but that too did not give the correct sorting. > Oops, +2 is BSD sort syntax. With gnu sort, use -k and be aware that it starts counting from 1 (starts from 0 for BSD sort). Hence, sort -n -t . -k 3
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