From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 9:25:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A8337B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:25:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAKHPcl28081; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAKHPcg14666; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from reims.mchp.siemens.de (alaska [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.18 ]) with ESMTP id fAKHPchK031540; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from reims.mchp.siemens.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reims.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/alaska [ $Revision: 1.10 ]) with ESMTP id fAKHPchr041615; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:38 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ust@localhost) by reims.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/alaska [ $Revision: 1.2 ]) id fAKHPYgj041614; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:34 +0100 From: Udo Schweigert To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sort Message-ID: <20011120172533.GA41469@alaska.cert.siemens.de> References: <86r8qt7gjq.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86r8qt7gjq.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:50:01 +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a cvs file as follows : > > id,first_name,last_name,company_name > > I want to sort this on first name. Doing > cat file.csv | sort > sorts starting at the beginning of the line. sort -t , -k 2 < file.csv ("man sort" is your friend ;-) Best regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 CT IC 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : udo.schweigert@siemens.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message