On 03/11/10 14:52, Thomas A Schweiger wrote: > > I have found an anomaly in the sort utility. > > If I sort on the 10th pipe delimited field using the command: > > sort -t\| -k 10 source.dat
That sorts from the 10th field on. If you just want the 10th field then use -k10,10 If the field is numeric (and not fixed width) use -k10,10n cheers, Pádraig.
