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sort the string which combined with string + numeric using bash script. $ sort -V #Sort #sort #number #string

Sort and get the best first of duplicated lines $ sort -k3rn file | sort -u -k1,1 #Sort #Duplicated #Value

sort -k2 -n genome.fa #Sort #Column2 #Bash

Sort a file with column 2: sort -g -k 2,2 allPacbio.fa.fai > sorted.fai #sort #file #column

Check if BAM file is sorted or not use: for F in `find . -name "*.bam"`; do echo $F; samtools index ${F} ; done #Sort #BAM #Trick

Sort FASTA sequence by length: cat f1.fasta| awk '{if($0 ~ /^>/){printf "%st", $0}else{print length($0)"t"$0}}'| sort -k2n,2| awk '{print $1"n"$3}' > sequence.fasta #Sort #Fasta #Trick #Onliner