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Old 02-16-2018
Explanation for sort utility and its detail
I tried to use sort utility and typed sort --help, read one of lines; its -k option, and part of it:

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OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options [bdfgiMhnRrV], which override global ordering options for that key
I am really not getting it
Anyone do me a useful favor to save me out of my ignorance ?

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Old 02-16-2018
All those options refine the behaviour of sort; e.g. -n if set globally would try to interpret any field numerically, so 10 would sort after 9. If specified for a single key field only, that field would be treated as a number, all others according to what was set globally (or the default).
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