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I have a file, leading with numbers:
$ cat file
1
3
13
2
4
12
When I use cat file | sort, it displays like this:
$ cat file | sort
1
12
13
2
3
4
How can I get the answer like this:
1
2
3
4
12
13
Use the
-noption to enable numerical sorting:This is faster and more portable than
-g, which is a proprietary extension of GNUsort.