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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sort -t option causing code to fail need ASCII character Post 302526942 by kumaran_5555 on Thursday 2nd of June 2011 02:58:09 AM
Old 06-02-2011
By default sort takes white space chars as delimiter, in your case you fields only delimited by tab, so you don't have to specif any delimiter, I have executed on solaris, it worked fine for me
Code:
user@host> (/home/user) $ sort  -k1,1 -k2,2 -k4,4 -k5,5r test.txt >sorted.txt
user@host> (/home/user) $ sort  -k1,1 -k2,2 -k4,4  sorted.txt -u
11erescca    010240    06    10    sct_det3_901_20110517_143936.txt
21erescca    010240    4    10    sct_det3_10_20110517_143936.txt
21erescca    010245    8    10    sct_det3_10_20110516_143936.txt
41erescca    010240    6    10    sct_det3_10_20110517_143936.txt
41erescca    4010240    6    10    sct_det3_10_20110517_143936.txt
user@host> (/home/user) $ cat sorted.txt
11erescca    010240    06    10    sct_det3_901_20110517_143936.txt
11erescca    010240    1    10    sct_det3_901_20110516_143936.txt
11erescca    010240    2    10    sct_det3_10_20110516_143936.txt
11erescca    010240    2    10    sct_det3_10_20110516_143936.txt
21erescca    010240    4    10    sct_det3_10_20110517_143936.txt
21erescca    010240    8    10    sct_det3_10_20110516_143936.txt
21erescca    010245    8    10    sct_det3_10_20110516_143936.txt
41erescca    010240    6    10    sct_det3_10_20110517_143936.txt
41erescca    010240    7    10    sct_det3_10_20110516_143936.txt
41erescca    4010240    6    10    sct_det3_10_20110517_143936.txt

 

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