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I have a data with the following format: foo<tab>1.00<space>1.33<space>2.00<tab>3 Now I tried to sort the file based on the last field decreasingly. I tried the following commands but it wasn't sorted as we expected. $ sort -k3nr file.txt # apparently this sort by space as delimiter $ sort -t"\t" -k3nr file.txt sort: multi-character tab `\\t' $ sort -t "`/bin/echo '\t'`" -k3,3nr file.txt sort: multi-character tab `\\t' What's the right way to do it?
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