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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sort with a tab as separator
Message-ID: <13656@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Aug 90 19:38:04 GMT
References: <1990Aug19.051237.27735@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Aug22.052738.4487@mcc.pyrsyd.oz> <3947@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <3947@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
->If your shell munges tabs into spaces, try "sort -t'\08'" -- I just
->tried it successfully on a Pyramid in the AT&T universe.  Your
->mileage may vary, of course.
-What sort of shell are you using? Did Pyramid "improve" the shell by
-adding this, or are you running some shell "improved" by somebody else?

Some "improvement" that would be, changing an 8 to a 9.