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Old 02-19-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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sorting by columns 1 2 3 and keeping the first line in first place in file:

Code:
head -1 table > workingfile
awk 'NR>1' table | sort -k1.1,1.10 -k2.1,2.10 -k 23.1,3.10 >> workingfile