Consider a tab delimited text file **list.txt</b>, containing the lines below:</p>
100 antelope 11 lion 2 ibex 2 ostrich 33 aardvark 10 zebra 200 buffalo 201 antelope
One multiple-choice question to distinguish novices from competent practitioners
Which will be the first line returned by the unix command ‘sort list.txt‘?
a) 33 aardvark b) 2 ibex c) 10 zebra d) 11 lion
One multiple-choice question to tell whether your audience has actually learned what you set out to teach
Given the same file list.txt, which of the following commands will perform a numeric sort of the list, in descending order?
1) sort list.txt 2) sort -n list.txt 3) sort -k1 list.txt 4) sort -nr list.txt
Exercise:
1) Sort the list alphabetically on the second column, then in descending numeric order of the first column.