sort with a tab as separator

[phd_ivo at gsbacd.uchicago.edu]

In article <13617 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes...
 
+So get a real shell:
+	$ echo '   ' | od -c
+	0000000  \t  \n

On a NeXT improved csh (and presumably on some other shells), the following
works:

	sort -t\^V^I

that is, the tab must be quoted twice: once with the backslash, and then with
the ^V (control-V) to not substitute spaces.

Once you know this, it is no big deal, of course.

/ivo welch	ivo at next.agsm.ucla.edu