Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: How to sort on right most column Message-ID: <1991May15.140902.23225@convex.com> Date: 15 May 91 14:09:02 GMT References: <13320@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of felps@convex.com (Robert Felps): :I don't know of any way to sort based on right to left. But you might try You reverse all the fields, sort on first field, then reverse them again. This might screw up fixed column stuff though. --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "So much mail, so little time."