I have a CSV file like this:
bear,1
fish,20
tiger,4
I need to sort it from greatest to least number, based on what is found in the second column, e.g.:
fish,20
tiger,4
bear,1
How can the file be sorted in this way?
I have a CSV file like this:
bear,1
fish,20
tiger,4
I need to sort it from greatest to least number, based on what is found in the second column, e.g.:
fish,20
tiger,4
bear,1
How can the file be sorted in this way?
will do what you want.
-t,
specifies the field separator to be a comma-k+2
specifies the field to sort on (field2)-r
specifies a reverse sort-n
specifies a numeric sort