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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 11:35:23 -0700
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Subject: Re: How to impose a numeric sort on negative numbers?
To: Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
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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.