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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:39:01 +0200
From:      Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com>
To:        dan@malaby.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using -t option with unix sort ?
Message-ID:  <7cbadc8705071402394bfd087b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7cbadc87050714023654bd3f26@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <42D5C3FF.8070004@malaby.com> <7cbadc87050714023654bd3f26@mail.gmail.com>

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On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby <dan@malaby.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am
> > having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab.
>=20
> <snip>
>=20
> > sort -t \t
>=20
> </snip>
>=20
> >
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>=20
> remove the space between -t and \t and it should work

actually scratch that, it works either way. can you give a sample of the da=
ta ?

Regards,
Nelis



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