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Sort A Numeric Column

Text Processing · pro · solved in-browser (no VM needed) · 3 tiered hints

Write /home/player/sortcol.sh: a bash script that extracts the 2nd column (the score) from the comma-separated /opt/data/scores.csv (a header line, then rows of name,score) and prints those scores one per line in ascending numeric order. Skip the header. Build a pipeline: drop the header, pull the column with cut (or awk), then sort -n. Do not print the header value. (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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