On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Steve Wald wrote:
It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g. -9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them. Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal notation.
You're in luck - sort's -g option does exactly this. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
