How to sort by row from terminal

spark_sara

I was looking at this question and I wondered if the following could be done from terminal. I did it in python, just want to see if it could be done from terminal, bash scripting or whatever. Suppose I have a file that looks like so: 2,4,5,14,9 40,3,5,10,1 could it be sorted like so, by rows (lines) 2,4,5,9,14 1,3,5,10,40 or is it too complicated? I did it using python, I just want to know if it could be done so next time I might not use python....

Originally asked by Lynob on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This should do about what you're looking for. It will read a file (test.txt) and create an output file (sorted.txt) with the sorted lines in the same order as they appear in the original file. while read line; do j=$(echo "$line" | sed -e 's/,/\n/g' | sort -n); echo "$j" | sed -e 's/ /,/g' >> sorted.txt; done < test.txt

Full answer by jkt123: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/447434 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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