On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Hal Pomeranz wrote: > >> Just adding "-k1,3" should do what you want... > > Hal, > > Thank you. I tried "-k1,2,3" and learned k takes no more than 2 > values. Using 1,3 seems to do the trick.
I wrote an article on sorting IP addresses that provides a little example of field sorting in GNU sort: http://www.madboa.com/geek/sort-addr/ -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug