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Never mind RE: Possible bug in sorting a tab-delimited file?
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Sean Li |
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Never mind RE: Possible bug in sorting a tab-delimited file? |
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Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:41:03 -0700 |
Never mind.
It is the problem about how to input a tab in command line.
perl -e '{print "sort -t\"\t\" -k2 -n f1.txt\n"}' | sh will do.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Sean
From: Sean Li
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:56 PM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Possible bug in sorting a tab-delimited file?
Importance: High
Hi, there,
I have a tab-delimited file called "f1.txt".
> cat f1.txt
-573 -6.06
-832 -11.95
I want to sort it numerically based on the second column, and expect to
see the result as following:
-832 -11.95
-573 -6.06
However, I use -t \t, the result turns out to be:
> sort -t \t -k 2 -n f1.txt
-573 -6.06
-832 -11.95
Is it a bug or just my oversight? The version of sort I'm using is
"sort 6.4 November 2006".
Best
Sean
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Sean Li, Ph.D
Program of Bioinfomatics & Systems Biology
Bioengineering Department
University of California at San Diego
Tel. 858-534-5116
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