‘sort’ produces output in a weird order
Consider the following input to sort:
sort
Sort based on the third column
I’m facing a huge 4-columns file. I’d like to display the sorted file in stdout based on its 3rd column:
sum pair of columns based on matching fields
I have a large file in the following format:
sort behavior when using numerical option: “sort -k2,2 -nk6,6 foo” vs “sort -k2,2 -k6,6n foo”
The two examples in the title produce very different results. The first (sort -k2,2 -nk6,6 foo) brings back the following results:
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I have this input: