On 21Nov2018 22:12, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After reading the man more carefully, an end position should be specified for the key: "KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position, where F is a field number and C a character position in the field; both are origin 1, and the stop position defaults to the line's end." Hence cat junk AA|def A|xyz cat junk | sort -k1,1 -t"|" # 1=start position, 1=end position A|xyz AA|def It's all good now.
Ahaha. Thank you! - Cameron _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
