> > However, I do not know how I can do this with the `sort'
> > function. Is
> > it even possible? (I considered 1<=i<=n through the whole message.)
>
> nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i
If you want to sort by numeric order instead of alphabetic order,
you should replace
sort -k2
with
sort -k2n
PS I learnt a new command today: "nl" which is shorter than "cat -n" :-)
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Cheers,
Clive
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