Sorting help

[ryanc2]

I'm having problems sorting a comma delimited file by the third column. This column is numeric and will contain numbers 1-99 (no leading zero for numbers 1-9)and will never start at the same position every time. I've tried using several of the options from the man page, but am struggling with the syntax to get what I want.

The input file could be as follows:

00010,blah,1
01234,blah blah blah,10
03415,blah blah,63

Thanks in advance.

 

[PHV]

Depending the flavor of your *nix try this:

sort -t ',' -n +3 -2

or:

sort -t ',' -k 3n,3

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[ryanc2]

The second option with the -k switch did it.

Thanks...