Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!oddjob!sphinx!kdw1 From: kdw1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Keith Waclena) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Multiple Field Sorts in UNIX(tm) Message-ID: <2105@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 11:40:27 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.2105 Posted: Thu Jul 23 11:40:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 07:20:47 EDT References: <2459@whuts.UUCP> <758@custom.UUCP> <7651@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: kdw1@sphinx.UUCP (Keith Waclena) Organization: University of Chicago, Graduate Library School Lines: 25 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:3311 comp.sources.wanted:1693 In article <7651@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: !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. Hmm. My sort(1) man page says that you can apply the -n option (and -dbfir) to individual sort fields, as in: $ sort +2n -3 +5df -6 +7n file I wonder: is this System V specific (we run SysVr2.1)? Do you BSD users have these options? Keith -- Keith Waclena University of Chicago Graduate Library School 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!kdw1 #includekdw1@sphinx.UChicago.{EDU,BITNET,MAILNET,CSNET}