Off topic: Sort in Unix

[Joel Hammer]

This seems to work, although I am not sure why.

sort -n -t";" file

Joel

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:46:35AM +0100, SaM Raj wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The contents of file 1 is as follows
> 
> 2;22;22;
> 44;33;22;
> 3;13;33;
> 3;3;33;
> 22;22;22;
> I want to sort the file in ascending order by Field 1;
> Field 2
> The final file should be something like this:
> 2;22;22;
> 3;3;33;
> 3;13;33;
> 22;22;22;
> 44;33;22;
> Pls let me know the syntax for achieving the same
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jay
> 
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