> -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:03 AM > To: Debian-User > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1) > > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on > each whole > > > line of text, where " " collates before "0", etc. I've looked in the > > > man page, but see nothing. > > Here's an example: > > $ sort sort.example.txt > 10,040,583 Violin_Concerto_in_D_major_Op._35.mp3 > 10,056,845 Symphony_5_Allegro_con_brio.mp3 > 10,101,975 MARS,_The_Bringer_of_War.mp3 > 1,011,879 rudolph's finale,instrumental.mp3
You should be able to do this by forcing sort to use a field separator that does not appear in any line. Try "sort -t '$'". Sort should then treat each line as a field and sort alphabetically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
