Digby
September 3, 2008, 4:49am
1
Sort isn't behaving as I expect. Can someone tell me what's going on?
$infile...
100> sort $infile > $outfile
$outfile
Digby
September 3, 2008, 5:11am
3
Thanks, but I'm still getting the same result... wierd!
daisy 1807>cat head.fps | awk '{print $1,$2,"..."}' | sort -d
sort -n
Digby
September 3, 2008, 5:59am
5
Thanks, but I've already tried it. I get the same output as above.
You can give this a try:
awk '{print substr($1,15)" "$0}' infile | sort -n | cut -d" " -f2-
Regards
digby:
Sort isn't behaving as I expect. Can someone tell me what's going on?
$infile...
100> sort $infile > $outfile
$outfile
This is just normal behaviour of sort . You can't do a sort -n as the numbers belongs to the part of string of alphabets.
One option would be:
for each in $(sed 's/101m_lig1_frag\(.*\) 124\(.*\)/\1/' infile | sort -n); do grep "^101m_lig1_frag$each " infile; done
Output:
Digby
September 3, 2008, 6:31am
8
Thanks for the input guys. You've given me a bit to work with.
This surprises me, mainly because of this...
daisy 1813>cat head.fps | awk '{print $1}' | sort -d
Why is a space character inbetween a '1' and a '2', and why can't you sort by just the first field?
