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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:36:00 +0200
From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: using -t option with unix sort ?
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On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby <dan@malaby.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>=20
> I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am
> having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab.

<snip>

> sort -t \t

</snip>

>=20
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

remove the space between -t and \t and it should work

Regards,
Nelis