CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Kai
Kai

Reputation: 25

Sorting numbers closest to a given number

If I want the closest numbers to 7 out of a range of 1-10, the expected outcome I would like is:

7, 6, 8, 5, 9, 4, 10, 3, 2, 1

I've looked around and can't really find an answer, is it even doable?

Pretty much trying to take an array with a series of numbers, and sorting them based on a target number with the closest at the top, and furthest towards the bottom.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 215

Answers (1)

KamilCuk
KamilCuk

Reputation: 140970

Print the numbers on newlines
Compute the absolute value of the difference between target number and a number on each line
Sort using that computed value
Remove that computed value
Format output

seq 10 |
awk -vN=7 '{print abs($1-N),$1}  function abs(x) { return x < 0 ? -x : x; }' |
sort -n |
cut -d' ' -f2 |
paste -sd,

Upvotes: 2

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