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Sort with ASCII order and Numeric Order

Posted on 03-Jan-2007 By Admin No Comments on Sort with ASCII order and Numeric Order

By default sort command will sort by ASCII order.

To sort it on basis of NUMERIC sort, you need to specify “-n” switch.

du -sk * | sort -n

Linux/Unix, shell

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