Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:28:41 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a sort ? Message-ID: <20050708172841.GK40261@keyslapper.net> In-Reply-To: <42CEAF1E.5010603@malaby.com> References: <42CEAF1E.5010603@malaby.com>
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On 07/08/05 09:51 AM, Daniel Malaby sat at the `puter and typed:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am
> having is with the -t option. I can not get it to accept a tab.
>
> Things I have tried:
>
> sort -t \t
> sort -t '\t'
> sort -t "\t"
> sort -t 0x09
> sort -t '0x09'
> sort -t "0x09"
> sort -t ^I
> sort -t '^I'
> sort -t "^I"
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Did you try sorting without the -t parameter? IIRC, it uses
whitespace to delimit fields by default, which includes the tab.
Unless you're trying to sort by a field other than the first, you
really don't need it anyway.
Then again, you could also just hit the tab key: -t ' '.
HTH
Lou
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