On 9/28/23 04:22, Pádraig Brady wrote:
-n, --numeric-sort compare according to string numerical value.
leading blanks, negative sign, decimal
point,
and thousands separators are supported.
Although a valiant effort
On 28/09/2023 11:11, Jorge Stolfi wrote:
The full documentation of sort explains that numeric sorting (as in
"sort -n") accepts a leading "-" sign, decimal points, thousands
separators, etc, but does not accept an explicit "+" sign. Values with
explicit "+" are treated as numeric 0 and ties are b
The full documentation of sort explains that numeric sorting (as in
"sort -n") accepts a leading "-" sign, decimal points, thousands
separators, etc, but does not accept an explicit "+" sign. Values with
explicit "+" are treated as numeric 0 and ties are broken by alpha sort.
However, the m
