Re: Why not enhance "sort" to handle floating point numbers?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Steve Wald wrote:

> It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would
> properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g.
> -9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them.
> Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal notation.

You're in luck - sort's -g option does exactly this.


Cheers,
Phil