Sort feature ?
derrick burns
drb at petrus.UUCP
Tue Aug 5 03:14:41 AEST 1986
There appears to be a bug with sort in its treatment of field
delimiters. For example:
sort -t/ <<!
abc/
abc,/
abc /
!
Produces:
abc /
abc,/
abc/
The reason is that sort considers the delimiter as a field terminator
and not as a field separator. Does anyone have a fix for this
feature (bug)? Also, does anyone have a copy of John Linderman's
sort which allows arbitrary length lines (up to the available memory)?
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