Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put
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Clive Standbridge <Clive.Standbridge@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
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