sort +r ??

ravi.ravix · 07-07-2006, 09:32 AM

The ancient program 'sort' used options like '+2' to sort the output by the field pos. 3.
But now the GNU option for the same is '--key=x,y' but still i am not able 2 get the desired output can u tell me why.

MensaWater · 07-07-2006, 09:52 AM

You'd have to give us a sample of what you're sorting and the command line you tried then tell us what result you expected and didn't get.

FYI: You don't need the ,y (sort -k2 will sort by field 2).

The reason we need what your sorting is it could be numeric in which case you'd have to add -n, or it could use an unexpected delimiter in which case you'd need to specify with -t. There could be other issues as well (do you have non-printing characters in your input for example)?