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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort command which ignores NULL Post 302374624 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 05:27:30 AM
Old 11-25-2009
I am not aware of options that do that. I think you will have to filter the output, e.g.
Code:
sort -nu sample.txt|egrep -v '^\||\|\|'

 

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