sort with a tab as separator

[Chris Robertson]

In article <3947 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>If your shell munges tabs into spaces, try "sort -t'\08'" -- I just
>>tried it successfully on a Pyramid in the AT&T universe.  Your
>>mileage may vary, of course.
>
>You bet it will!  The vanilla S5 Bourne shell doesn't interpret escape
>sequences such as that except in the "echo" command (and I don't think
>it even interprets one such as yours; try '\011' instead ...

Sorry, brain out to lunch when I wrote this.  Not only did I type 8 instead
of 11, but I just checked my test file and it has a typo in it.  This
definitely doesn't work.  I must admit, I *was* a bit surprised when it
seemed to.  So just ignore me while I crawl back into that handy hole in
the wall...  :-(
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