I have been using the sort command for years with a syntax as follows:
cat $file | sort -t, +1
I create filesystems on Linux and AIX from a CSV file and sort by the second
column as shown above.
Recently I have tried this command on RHEL 5.1 and it fails. So I went and
tried on Ubuntu 9.04 and
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Justin White wrote:
I have been using the sort command for years with a syntax as follows:
cat $file | sort -t, +1
This is addressed in the FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails
In short, sort is treating +1 as
