Sorting by integer value

Question

I am writing a bash script and I am using `ps -e -o %cpu` command. I would like to have output of sorted `%cpu` values (descending). How to do that? I know that I should use sort command but I don't know how.

Accepted Answer

```
 ps -e -o %cpu | sort -nr
```

`n` for numeric, `r` for reverse. If you also want to remove the header:

```
 ps -e -o %cpu | sed '1d' | sort -nr
```

Sorting by integer value

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