Sorting by numerical order
 

Hey guys,

Quick Q. I have a three column data file with lines as such:

1455594_at 306.42 51
1424094_at 6789.066 27
1419187_at 4.776 0

I need to tell bash to order the data numerically by entries in column 3. I've used the command:

Which works; however, it gets confused a bit and sorts as such:

88, 88, 89, 9, 9, 90, 91, 92

How do I tell bash to realize that it is sorting integers and thus 9 should not come after 89?

use the -n flag as per the sort manpage.

Thanks guys.