I have a largish file with 4 fields, separated by the '|' symbol. Reading
the sort man page suggests that I can sort on only the first field and I
want to sort on the first field, then on the second field, then on the third
field.

   Trying to sort just the first field causes bash to complain bitterly:

[rshepard@salmo ~/projects/nevada/queenstake/stats]$ sort -t=| streams.txt >
out.txt
-bash: ./streams.txt: Permission denied

   sort didn't like the -o=outputfile option so I tried redirecting.

   What other tool would allow me to do a hierarchical sort of a 15K row
file?

Rich
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