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Old 06-28-2005
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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You are saying the fields in the file are space delimited - there are spaces between each field, but the fileds themselves vary in size.

Assume you want to sort on the fifth field -

Code:
sort -k 5 filename > outputfilename