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Poisson
Poisson

Reputation: 1623

sort negative value in Unix

I have a problem when i want to sort a file like this

ce point de l ordre du jour -0.000000004070935
au sein de la commission des libertés 0.000000004017626
du conseil de sécurité de l onu -0.000000003909216

I try with this command 

sort -ngk8r file1 > file2

but i get this

ce point de l ordre du jour -0.000000004070935
au sein de la commission des libertés 0.000000004017626
du conseil de sécurité de l onu -0.000000003909216

As you see the file is not sorted

Upvotes: 2

Views: 756

Answers (1)

Zombo
Zombo

Reputation: 1

I found joy by dropping the -g

$ sort -gnrk8 file1
sort: options `-gn' are incompatible

Example

$ sort -nrk8 file1
au sein de la commission des libertés 0.000000004017626
du conseil de sécurité de l onu -0.000000003909216
ce point de l ordre du jour -0.000000004070935

Upvotes: 1

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