Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:21:51 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sort Message-ID: <20011120132151.GB77414@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <86r8qt7gjq.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> References: <86r8qt7gjq.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:50:01PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a cvs file as follows : > > id,first_name,last_name,company_name > > I want to sort this on first name. Doing > cat file.csv | sort > sorts starting at the beginning of the line. > > Is there a way for sort to sort a file based on a field delimited by a > character, or should I just use a perl script ? Yes. See sort(1) and the -t and -k options. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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