sort with a tab as separator
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Tue Aug 21 07:26:21 AEST 1990
>On a NeXT improved csh (and presumably on some other shells), the following
>works:
...
>that is, the tab must be quoted twice: once with the backslash, and then with
>the ^V (control-V) to not substitute spaces.
"improved"? Thanks, NeXT; thanks a lot. The vanilla C shell doesn't
have this particular stupidity. Is this a "tcsh"ism? If so, whoever
maintains "tcsh" should seriously think about getting rid of it, 'cause
it's a crock. "csh" is broken enough already without breaking it
further....
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