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. > > <snip> > > > sort -t \t > > </snip> > > > > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > 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 data ? Regards, Nelishelp
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