Sort a text file by line length including spaces

Question

I have a CSV file that looks like this

AS2345,ASDF1232, Mr. Plain Example, 110 Binary ave.,Atlantis,RI,12345,(999)123-5555,1.56
AS2345,ASDF1232, Mrs. Plain Exampl         


        

Answer 1

Try this command instead:

awk '{print length, $0}' your-file | sort -n | cut -d " " -f2-