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From: davidsen@sungod.steinmetz (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sort question
Message-ID: <13749@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 4 May 89 15:12:59 GMT
References: <199448@hrc.UUCP>
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <199448@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
| How can I use the 'sort' command, to sort by two fields?
| Example:
| 
| _4 test _E                  _1 test _E
| _2 test _E    should be     _2 test _E
| _3 test _F                  _4 test _E
| _1 test _E                  _3 test _F

  Try "sort +2"

  Look at the +n.m and -n.m stuff. No you *don't* need "+2 +0", read the
man page...
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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