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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sort columns by field Post 302168728 by kamel.seg on Tuesday 19th of February 2008 09:10:37 AM
Old 02-19-2008
sort columns by field
hello,

i have a table contain many columns delimited by blank.

i want to sort this table by the 2 columns and 3 one and i want to keep the first line inchanged?
how can i do using the sort command?

thanks

table like :

field1 field2 field3 field4
x y z b
t h r n
..
 

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odbc_specialcolumns

ODBC_SPECIALCOLUMNS(3)							 1						    ODBC_SPECIALCOLUMNS(3)

odbc_specialcolumns - Retrieves special columns

SYNOPSIS

       resource  odbc_specialcolumns  (resource   $connection_id, int  $type, string  $qualifier, string  $owner, string  $table, int  $scope, int
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DESCRIPTION

	Retrieves either the optimal set of columns that uniquely identifies a row in the table, or columns that are  automatically  updated  when
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PARAMETERS

	      o $connection_id
		-The ODBC connection identifier, see odbc_connect(3) for details.

	      o $type
		-  When  the type argument is SQL_BEST_ROWID, odbc_specialcolumns(3) returns the column or columns that uniquely identify each row
		in the table.  When the type argument is SQL_ROWVER, odbc_specialcolumns(3) returns the column or columns in the specified  table,
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	      o $qualifier
		- The qualifier.

	      o $owner
		- The owner.

	      o $table
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	      o $scope
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	      o $nullable
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RETURN VALUES

	Returns an ODBC result identifier or FALSE on failure.

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