Hello World!
One of our applications generates a file that needs to have a sort
applied to it. There is not a field seperator in the file.
The fields that need to be sorted are positions 41, and the seccond
field is between positions 1 and 7.
When we sort the file useing
> sort -b -k 1.42,42 infile -o outfile
or even
> sort -b -k 1.1,7 infile -o outfile
the sort works. When we combind the sort so that we have a primary
and seccondary sort
> sort -b -k 1.42,42 -k 2.1,7 infile -o outfile
we get a random order sort.
suggestions on how to word a primary and secondary sort so that
du's sort will do what we want?
thank-you for your time.
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Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 22:11:06 NZDT