On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 1:48 PM Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote: > [...] > 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?
Indeed, that'd be a pretty bad approach, as I said earlier in this thread. My last try: Give an option for specifying an _explicit_and_ordered_ list of separators. Something like: $ sort --field-separators=" //" -n -k5 -k3 -k4 file1.txt (i.e. two spaces and two slashes, in that order). Anyway, I don't feel strongly about the convenience of adding a new option, for a use-case that seems infrequent in real life. -- Dani Moncayo
