From 29248dbd56b273af77b43e3ea8d7fe889f3ad743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Dilks <c-dilks@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:57:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: be sure `data_table.dat` is sorted

---
 qa-physics/datasetOrganize.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qa-physics/datasetOrganize.sh b/qa-physics/datasetOrganize.sh
index bd89d387..a56c6a99 100755
--- a/qa-physics/datasetOrganize.sh
+++ b/qa-physics/datasetOrganize.sh
@@ -27,5 +27,9 @@ for file in $(find $inputDir -name "monitor_*.hipo"); do
   ln -sv $file $OUTMON_DIR/
 done
 for file in $(find $inputDir -name "data_table_*.dat"); do
-  cat $file >> $OUTDAT_DIR/data_table.dat
+  cat $file >> $OUTDAT_DIR/data_table.dat.tmp
 done
+
+# be sure the data table is sorted
+sort -n -o $OUTDAT_DIR/data_table.dat{,.tmp}
+rm $OUTDAT_DIR/data_table.dat.tmp