sorting IP addresses

[Tim McNamara]

`sort -n` does a good job with most numbers, but is imprecise with IP4
addresses because they're apparently tokenized by the first
non-numeric character.

How would I recursively sort through all four fields of a form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn?

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[Tim McNamara]

Post by Tim McNamara
`sort -n` does a good job with most numbers, but is imprecise with IP4
addresses because they're apparently tokenized by the first
non-numeric character.
How would I recursively sort through all four fields of a form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn?

Sorry, forgot to engage 'use a search engine for search' mentality.
Answer found[0]:

sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4

[0]: http://www.madboa.com/geek/sort-addr/

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