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From: mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sort first two fields in numeric order
Keywords: this shouldn't be difficult
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.222520.7816@drd.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 22:25:20 GMT
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Organization: DRD Corporation
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I've got a file with tab separated columns of stuff that I
expand to pretty tabstops and sort.  I want to sort the file 
primarily on the first column and then on the second, both
numerically.  No problem, right?

expand -5 foo | sort +0n -1n 

should treat both the first and second columns as numerics
and sort them in that order.  It don't.  I get:

16  0
16  1
16  10
16  19
16  2
16  21

I'm missing something terribly obvious here.  Comments?
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