sort with a tab as separator

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Aug17.185300.159 at midway.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo at gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>I just figured out that it is my shell that actually translates tabs into
>spaces.  So, now I need a way to quote a tab (no, quotation marks or
>backslash quoting don't work)...

So get a real shell:
	$ echo '   ' | od -c
	0000000  \t  \n
	0000002
	$