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I have a CSV file like this:
bear,1
fish,20
tiger,4
I need to sort it from greatest to least number, based on what is found in the second column, e.g.:
fish,20
tiger,4
bear,1
How can the file be sorted in this way?
will do what you want.
-t,specifies the field separator to be a comma-k+2specifies the field to sort on (field2)-rspecifies a reverse sort-nspecifies a numeric sort