Re: numerical sort

[Gerhard Heinzel]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Gerhard Heinzel <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I fail to sort a simple ASCII file
> > that contains two columns of numbers
> > into proper numerical order (first column)
> > with gnu sort version 2.0.10:
> >
> > Here is what happens with "sort -n":
> > -60.6304 -126.723
> > -6.00392 -104.131
> > -59.6326 -126.578
>
> Thanks for the report, but I can't reproduce the above problem.
> Using sort -n works for me with the latest test release: 2.0.20
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.20.tar.gz

Thanks, I have now installed 2.0.20 and it works fine.

> Using -d isn't very useful when sorting numbers.
>
> > Here is what happens with "sort -d":
> > -0.05 -0.00784905

My mistake, I meant to use "-g".

With best greetings

Gerhard


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 Gerhard Heinzel                              e-mail: address@hidden
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