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Clive Standbridge <clive.standbri...@myriadgroup.com> writes:

>> > 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" :-)
Thanks!

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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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The ends justify the means.
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