Re: sort on single item only

On Mar 30, 2:00 am, pk <p...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday 30 March 2009 07:02, Lao Ming wrote:

What if the column delimiters were either spaces or, say, tildes.
Could it still be done?

Man sort, option -t

Well, that's not quite what I meant. Of course, now that I think
about it, what I meant was probably just wishful thinking. For the
most part, the fields look like this:

1234 ABC 56 one-large-text-field

However, they can also look like this (below) since the first field is
actually five chars, the 2nd field is actually four chars. The 3rd
field, however, is always just two chars.

1234~ABC~56 one-large-text-field

If it can be done, I'd still really love to know how.




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