Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:13:37 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Shayan Pooya <shayan@liveve.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Field delimiter in sort program in freebsd Message-ID: <52E3C691.8090000@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <CABAubTg2RH95LypshV6ZpZP1qQW24TQZfFSSrYs5DzUoqA5tSw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABAubTg2RH95LypshV6ZpZP1qQW24TQZfFSSrYs5DzUoqA5tSw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2014-01-25 14:59, Shayan Pooya wrote: > Hello, > > How can I use the ascii character 0xff as the field delimiter for the > FreeBSD sort program? > On bash on Linux I use the following: > $ sort -t $'\xff' -z > to sort a set of null terminated lines where each field is separated by a > \xff. > > The FreeBSD 10 manual page says it has the -t option, but I am not sure how > I should give it the option to use a specific character. > > On tcsh: > % sort -t $'\xff' > Illegal variable name. $ is a variable, and you have not defined it. $ by it self means the first word on the line ie sort. So your line expands to: $ sort -t sort'\xff' NB I AM NOT A PROGRAMMER!
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