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Old 02-13-2002
Chanel Chanel is offline
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This is a sample of my input file...


99-xsdq0763 19-xsdq0533
04-xsdq0762 20-xsdq0551
05-xsdq0760 21-xsdq0550
06-xsd00z51 22-xsdq0850
07-xsuqcf02 23-xsdq0828
08-xsd00z12 24-xsdq0826

09-xsd00z43 25-xsdq0823
10-xsd00z35 26-xsdq0822
11-xsd00z50 27-xsdq0552
12-xsdqli01 28-xsdq0401
13-xsuqcf01 29-xsdq0750
14-xsdq0511 30-xsdq0728
15-xsdq0542 31-xsdq0726
16-xsd00e37 32-xsdq0723

I am told to sort this file in aphabetical/numeric order...

I tried

sort -nfd workfile

but the output is not in the corredt
alphabetical /numeric order...
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