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SORT commandGNU sort on Linux is not giving expected results on my csv file. Can you please help to resolve the situation/ issue?

Input file

[nscruser]$ cat cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Objective I need to do numeric sort on the first field for the above file

[nscruser]$ sort -t',' -k1 -n cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Expected output But I expected the output as below as I am doing a numeric sort on first column

10,30 20,1050 50,900

Can someone please let me know why the discrepancy?

SORT command is not giving expected results on my csv file. Can you please help to resolve the situation/ issue?

Input file

[nscruser]$ cat cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Objective I need to do numeric sort on the first field for the above file

[nscruser]$ sort -t',' -k1 -n cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Expected output But I expected the output as below as I am doing a numeric sort on first column

10,30 20,1050 50,900

Can someone please let me know why the discrepancy?

GNU sort on Linux is not giving expected results on my csv file. Can you please help to resolve the situation/ issue?

Input file

[nscruser]$ cat cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Objective I need to do numeric sort on the first field for the above file

[nscruser]$ sort -t',' -k1 -n cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Expected output But I expected the output as below as I am doing a numeric sort on first column

10,30 20,1050 50,900

Can someone please let me know why the discrepancy?

asked Jul 25, 2022 at 10:09

sort command- numeric sort not working on csv

SORT command is not giving expected results on my csv file. Can you please help to resolve the situation/ issue?

Input file

[nscruser]$ cat cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Objective I need to do numeric sort on the first field for the above file

[nscruser]$ sort -t',' -k1 -n cemp1.txt 10,30 50,900 20,1050

Expected output But I expected the output as below as I am doing a numeric sort on first column

10,30 20,1050 50,900

Can someone please let me know why the discrepancy?

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