Sorting numbers inside text strings

Posted by eldersnake on Jun 16, 2017 6:32 PM EDT
The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov 		Mail this story
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I have a script that compiles and sorts museum collection data. One of the data fields is for museum registration codes, and a plain sort doesn't understand that humans expect "KS.99", for example, to come before "KS.100". My script instead uses the magic "-V" option for GNU sort, and gets the human-friendly result.

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