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note typo in question should have been a 4 not 3<br />
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thanks - it wasn't working because it turns out there are some characters instead of numbers<br />
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when sort encounters a character in a numerical sort it puts the characters first. is there any way to get the characters at the end? e.g. sort numerically if a number and sort alphabetically if a letter and put the numbers before the letters
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note typo in question should have been a 4 not 3

thanks - it wasn't working because it turns out there are some characters instead of numbers

when sort encounters a character in a numerical sort it puts the characters first. is there any way to get the characters at the end? e.g. sort numerically if a number and sort alphabetically if a letter and put the numbers before the letters

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i guess the easiest thing would be to separate the data into 2 files, sort them and then merge again
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i guess the easiest thing would be to separate the data into 2 files, sort them and then merge again

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Hi<br />
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I have a data file which has data of this form in column1<br />
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xxx1<br />
xxx23<br />
xxx15<br />
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I want to sort numerically on the numbers after the 3 x's so i tried this command<br />
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sort -nk1.3<br />
<br />
but xxx10 is coming before xxx1<br />
<br />
thanks
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Hi

I have a data file which has data of this form in column1

xxx1
xxx23
xxx15

I want to sort numerically on the numbers after the 3 x's so i tried this command

sort -nk1.3

but xxx10 is coming before xxx1

thanks

sort not working as expected

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