The text file has > 120k rows; each row has 8 columns. There are duplicate rows that I want to eliminate. My reading of the sort man page and various Web pages with examples tells me that the sort --key option is limited to a sequential starting field and ending field. What I need is to sort on fields 1, 2, and 4.
If 'sort' won't do this, what tool will? I don't see how awk, sed, or grep can, yet a combination of these perhaps might. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
