Re: (no subject)

[email protected] (Bob Proulx) Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:52:57 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Yaniv Hilel <[email protected]> [2002-10-28 15:28:47 +0200]:
> Bug:

This is not a bug.

> Hi, i can't sort numbers because:
> 1
> 10
> 11
> 2
> 3

Those are sorted by character order by default.  If you want numeric
order then you need to tell sort to sort numerically with -n.

  sort -n

Bob