work-uhlar: cat text hello:4 helloworld:3 hello0:2 hello0world:1 work-uhlar: sort -t: text hello0:2 hello0world:1 hello:4 helloworld:3 well, as long as the : is separator, it should n't be considered as part of the strings and shut "hello" shuold precede "hello0". It doesn't. comments? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRCNET admin of *.sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ ; http://www.nextra.sk/ Windows found: (R)emove, (E)rase, (D)elete _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils