Hi - One of the biggest frustrations with the "sort" utility is figuring out how to tell it where exactly the keys are on each line. For example, I have a file which contains, in part,
MI#4617 ROM11 FAD_13 vss! vss! nmos L=0.18U W=0.69U MI#4765 ROM0N FAD_11 vss! vss! nmos L=0.18U W=0.69U MI#4749 ROM8N FAD_15 vss! vss! nmos L=0.18U W=0.69U
I really want to sort FIRST on column 3, and then on the numeric part of column 2. I would think that the sort command would be something like sort -s -k3 -k2.4n BUT this doesn't work. It sorts OK on column 3, but then does nothing with the second sort key. It would be incredibly useful if there were some mode in which sort would just report each line and the sort keys found on that line, so that I can make sure that I'm properly communicating how to find the darn keys! -- Mario % sort --version sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
