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Old 03-31-2006
sort command delimiter
Hello All,

I'm trying to use the sort command on a text file, the delimiter used in this file is a non-prining character '\027'

I tried to use the command -t option but it's not really working.

sort +n4 -t'\027' filename <<-- this is what I was trying and not working.

Your help is highly appreciated

Thanks,
Nomaad
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Old 04-01-2006
Just a suggestion (dont know if it will work...), try using tr to translate the \027 to some other character, then sort and then tr the 'other' char back to \027.
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