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From: tcianflo@nugipsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sort question...
Message-ID: <303@nugipsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 14:11:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 14:11:01 1987
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Take a typical name and address file with many different names,
but some common names, such as:

Name1, J
Smith, A  |
Smith, C  | - family #1
Smith, E  |
Name2, R
Smith, B  |
Smith, D  | - family #2
Smith, F  |
Name3, P

Using the sort utility, and sorting alphabetically by last name,
you get family #1 and family #2 interleaved, of course, by virtue
of their same last names and first initials.
How would I set up the file so that I could get the sort
utility to:

	1) keep family members together without mixing up names
	with other families of the same last name

	2) force the listing of a family group to be in a specified
	order, for example, head-of-house followed by children.

Is there some scheme using additional fields in the file,
or perhaps some other utility I should be using?

Thanks in advance for any help you can send my way.
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