PowerShell: How do I sort a text file by column?

You can sort by an expression, split each line (space delimiter), cast the last item to system.double and sort on it:

Get-Content .\file.txt | Sort-Object { [double]$_.split()[-1] } -Descending

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another variant:

gc c:\f1.txt | add-member scriptproperty sortby {$this.split()[-1]} {[double]$this} -pass | sort sortby -desc

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