On 10/16/23 08:35, Dani Moncayo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 8:19 AM Dani Moncayo <dmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe someone could figure out a better way of specifying several
field-delimiters.
Perhaps a long option, like:
If (and only if) such a feature would be added, then it would make sense
to generically solve the problem.
The sort keys are usually directly bound to the corresponding delimiter.
Using the initial example:
SUSE 10.2 12/7/2006
In natural language, the problem could be described as:
- with ' ' as the delimiter,
- take the 3rd field,
- there, with '/' as delimiter,
- sort by key 3, 1 and 2 numerically.
Therefore, melting the delimiters into a list like ...
$ sort --field-separators=" /" -n -k5 -k3 -k4 file1.txt
... would not tell correctly which keys to sort by, would it?
Have a nice day,
Berny
