Re: bash - sort command - can I sort by a certain field?

From: Alex Hunsley (lardattardisdoteddotacdotuk_at_mailinator.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:02:21 +0000

Alex Hunsley wrote:
> I'd like to use a bash command to sort a file by a certain field in that
> file.
> I've looked at sort but I can't see how to do it - interestingly, the
> docs say the -t option is for specifying a delimiter, but then I can't
> see anything else obvious about saying which field you'd like to sort by!
> If sort can't do this directly, I'm sure something is possible using cut
> + sort together, but the exact form eludes me at the moment!
>
> thanks
> alex

D'OH!
I've just discovered, via random web pages, that I can do:

sort +1 file.txt

... to sort by a certain field. My Cygwin man page says *nothing* about
this ability - why this oversight?

alex

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