Help with sort data based on descending order problem

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Input file

9.99331e-13
8.98451e-65
9.98418e-34
7.98319e-08
365592
111669
74942.9
0

Desired output

365592
111669
74942.9
7.98319e-08
1.99331e-13
6.98418e-34
9.98451e-65
0

Command try

sort -nrk1 input_file
365592
111669
74942.9
9.98451e-65
7.98319e-08
6.98418e-34
1.99331e-13
0

Thanks for any advice to get my desired output.
The command I try is fail to get desired output when the input file contain "e"

2

could this help you ?

#!/usr/bin/perl

@array=<DATA>;
@sorted=sort{$b <=> $a}@array;
print map("$_",@sorted);

__DATA__
9.99331e-13
8.98451e-65
9.98418e-34
7.98319e-08
365592
111669
74942.9
0
1 Like
3

Hi.

Briefly, for input data2:

9.99331e-13
8.98451e-65
9.98418e-34
7.98319e-08
365592
111669
74942.9
0

sort -gr data2
365592
111669
74942.9
7.98319e-08
9.99331e-13
9.98418e-34
8.98451e-65
0

with:

sort (GNU coreutils) 6.10

See man sort for details ... cheers, drl

PS Probably a typo exists in desired output, 1 <- 9 for 9.99331e-13