Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 23:21:41 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk> To: Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sorting by character position Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960104231934.954A-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199601020502.VAA23128@MediaCity.com>
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On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Brian Litzinger wrote:
> All I want to do is
>
> sort -n -d -k 14,29 <unsorted >sorted
>
> where -k 14,29 is supposed to mean that sort is supposed to consider
> the data in columns 14 - 29 of each line as the key to sort by.
>
> However, from my reading of the sort man page, it doesn't seem to
> have this functionality. However, I remember I used to be able
> to do this in my SYSV days.
It seems to be there in 2.1.0R:-
-k POS1[,POS2]
An alternate syntax for specifying sorting keys.
The fields and character positions are numbered
starting with 1.
James
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