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07-31-2006

jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline

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Turn off field separation by using a field sep character that does not occur in any record. Try the : character, then everything is in field1

Code:

sort -t: -k 1.16,1.29 sample.txt > output.txt

This sorts character positions 16-29.