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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:25:34 +0100
From:      Udo Schweigert <udo.schweigert@siemens.com>
To:        Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sort
Message-ID:  <20011120172533.GA41469@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <86r8qt7gjq.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
References:  <86r8qt7gjq.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>

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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

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