[TriLUG] `sort` two field text file by second field

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:23, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> The man page for 'sort' indicates the ability to use a field separator 
> (-n) but I tried:
> 
> cat filename |sort -rn -t : |more
> 

just add a -k 2 for key field 2

i.e.
cat filename |sort -rn -t : -k 2 |more

-tim
-- 
Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at nc.rr.com>
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