On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole > line of text, where " " collates before "0", etc. I've looked in the > man page, but see nothing.
I guess I'm not quite clear on what you want, but as I see it there's only two ways to do this: quail (sjuranic)$ cat text 1 1001 1000 100 10 200 2 19 427 quail (sjuranic)$ cat text 1 1001 1000 100 10 200 2 19 427 quail (sjuranic)$ sort text 1 10 100 1000 1001 19 2 200 427 quail (sjuranic)$ sort -n text 1 2 10 19 100 200 427 1000 1001 Unless you want something really strange, like "2" to come before "200" but after "1000" (in which case you'll probably have to roll your own). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
