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Yurko
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File file1 with your data created:

$ cat file1
1    10  11
10   200 201
2    20   21
22   2000 2001

Now we sort the file lines and write results to file2:

$ cat file1|sort -n > file2

Or we can even simplify it:

$ sort -n file1 > file2

Checking the results in file2:

$ cat file2
1    10  11
2    20   21
10   200 201
22   2000 2001

UPDATED according to changed task.

File file1 with your data created:

$ cat file1
1    10  11
10   200 201
2    20   21
22   2000 2001

Now we sort the file lines and write results to file2:

$ cat file1|sort -n > file2

Or we can even simplify it:

sort -n file1 > file2

Checking the results in file2:

$ cat file2
1    10  11
2    20   21
10   200 201
22   2000 2001

UPDATED according to changed task.

File file1 with your data created:

$ cat file1
1    10  11
10   200 201
2    20   21
22   2000 2001

Now we sort the file lines and write results to file2:

$ cat file1|sort -n > file2

Or we can even simplify it:

$ sort -n file1 > file2

Checking the results in file2:

$ cat file2
1    10  11
2    20   21
10   200 201
22   2000 2001
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UPDATED according to changed task.

File file1 with your data created:

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for i in 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 20 21 22 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;do echo $i;done|sort -n
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You can extend numbers with leading zeroes, in this cases sort and sort -n results the same output:

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UPDATED according to changed task.

File file1 with your data created:

$ cat file1
1    10  11
10   200 201
2    20   21
22   2000 2001

Now we sort the file lines and write results to file2:

$ cat file1|sort -n > file2

Or we can even simplify it:

sort -n file1 > file2

Checking the results in file2:

$ cat file2
1    10  11
2    20   21
10   200 201
22   2000 2001
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for i in 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 20 21 22 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;do echo $i;done|sort
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for i in 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 20 21 22 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;do echo $i;done|sort -n
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You can extend numbers with leading zeroes, in this cases sort and sort -n results the same output:

for i in 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2 20 21 22 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do printf "%02d\n" $i ; done|sort
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