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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:39:01 +0200
From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: using -t option with unix sort ?
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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