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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:10:50 -0500
From:      "Heller, David" <dheller@rwd.com>
To:        "'FreeBSD Support'" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Sorting Problem
Message-ID:  <c=US%a=_%p=RWD%l=RWDEXCH1-970228221050Z-8884@columbia.rwd.com>

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Hello,

I am trying to sort a sendmail aliases file.  I would like to sort 
each line on the second character of the first field.  The results are 
always sorted on the first character of the first field.  The version 
of sort is GNU 1.9.

Each line in the aliases file looks like this:

jdoe:jdoe@columbia.rwd.com

I have tried the sort command in the following ways:

sort -t : -o newfile -k 1,2 aliases
sort -t : -o newfile -k 1,3 aliases
sort -t : -o newfile +0 -3 aliases


Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Dheller@rwd.com



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