Yes, I tried a sort -n but, here is a snippet of my output.

<code> 10.194.196.10 romulus
10.194.196.100 nnocws014
10.194.196.101 wslkms01 wslknms01
10.194.196.102 nnocws016
10.194.196.103 nnocws017
10.194.196.104 txwl008w
10.194.196.105 nnocws019
10.194.196.106 txwl015w
10.194.196.11 otter
10.194.196.110 nnocweb01
10.194.196.111 shemp
10.194.196.113 dvwl000s
10.194.196.125 spanky
10.194.196.126 buckwheat
10.194.196.127 datapro
10.194.196.128 darla
10.194.196.129 txwl018w
10.194.196.13 nnocdev01
<code>

this is not what we are looking for.

kind regards

-mike

In reply to Re: Using Unix sort by tmbailey123
in thread sorting /etc/hosts by tmbailey123

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