If you save the table then it's acting on a file, not a hashtable. /filter does not support hashtables.
That is also not sorting the data. Well, it is, but the data inside of the table is still unsorted, but you can use a number as an item/key to sort the data yourself - this is not a built-in hashtable sort routine, but a workaround. It doesn't change the fact that hashtables are unsorted.
