sorting numerically by first row

Question

I have a file with almost 900 lines in excel that I\'ve saved as a tab deliminated .txt file. I\'d like to sort the text file by the numbers given in the first column (they rang

Answer 1

As stated here you can have problems with this (and in the other pseudo-follow-up-duplicate question you asked, yes, you did)

tr '\r' '\n' < myfile.txt | sort -n

It works fine here on MSYS but on some platforms you may have to add:

export LC_CTYPE=C

or tr will consider the file as a text file, and probably will tag it as corrupt after having reached the max line limit.

Obviously I could not test it, but I'm confident it will solve the problem given what I read on the linked answer.