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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Field Sorts in UNIX(tm)
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Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 18:52:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 22 18:52:39 1987
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In article <758@custom.UUCP> boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) writes:
>UNIX Sort (as well as our own PC/SORT) allows you to do exactly what you
>want.

 ... unless you need a numeric sort on one field but an alphabetical
sorts on another, or if any of the other global sort flags conflict
for two fields.  It should not be too hard to write a stable sort
for such applications, especially if you let /usr/bin/sort do the
hard work.  (Note the merge option!)
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