From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers?
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 11:35:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZipZMzoLdFbRZtwmx6yKL2_opMYaF89g6ysDcEKTL_8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6A2448E-28B3-4490-B003-ADBEF47659EA@covisp.net>
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:13 AM Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net> wrote:
>
> arr=( -1A -2b -3B 0 1A 2C 3B ); print -l ${(on)arr} | sort -h
>
> Or is that cheating?
Well, it's sort of cheating, but it's not correct either, because "1G"
would sort after "1K". I think you want "sort -n" rather than -h.
And if you're piping to sort anyway, there's no reason to use (on)
first.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 17:45 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-07-01 18:02 ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-07-01 18:07 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-07-01 18:12 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-07-03 18:12 ` Lewis Butler
2020-07-03 18:35 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2020-07-01 19:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-07-02 11:36 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-02 12:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-07-03 16:21 ` Hyphens, minuses, and dashes (was: Re: How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers?) Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-02 15:46 ` How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers? Bart Schaefer
2020-07-03 20:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-07-03 20:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-07-03 22:23 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-07 16:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-07 16:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-07-01 18:48 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2020-07-06 7:15 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
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