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willf/bash command to sort on a tsv column, not the first column.sh

Created May 25, 2010 15:23
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sorting on numeric keys on in the first column
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bash command to sort on a tsv column, not the first column.sh
sort -k2 -rn -t" "
# where the text bewteen the "" is Ctrl-V TAB
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willf commented May 25, 2010

Of course, -k is the column number (1-based), and -rn is "reverse numeric",

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