Re: Help with sorting fields in a database

[rpjday]

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, tom minchin wrote:

> It probably thinks you are trying to pipe the output of sort into datafile.
> 
> Try sort +4rn -5 -t\| datafile.dat -o datafile.dat.sorted
> 
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i'm curious why no one is suggesting the alternative form
of sort:

  sort -k5rn,5 -t\| ... etc etc

this newer form has always seemed more reasonable, at least
to me.  comments?

rday



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