[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux sort
Leroy Tennison
leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Mon Apr 21 00:24:52 CDT 2008
How do you sort a tab-delimited file using sort? Created the following
test file (named test):
five zzzzz 5
Four vcxvbc 3
one asdf 4
three ghjks 1
Two qwerty 2
(those are tabs separating the text, I checked with hexdump)
I've tried
sort -t\t -k3,3 test
sort -t\t -k3n,3 test
sort -t '9' -k3,3 test
sort -t '\9' -k3,3 test (Produces a "multi-byte tab" error message)
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