Sort numerical value using the sort command

Sort numerical value using the sort command

Answer:

Assume you have a text file contains the following content:

1
2
3
10

When you use the sort command to sort them, it will give the following output:

# sort test.txt
1
10
2
3

So you need to sort them according to the numerical values?

Try with the n flag:

# sort -n test.txt
1
2
3
10