Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Multiple Field Sorts in UNIX(tm) Message-ID: <6153@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 01:55:19 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6153 Posted: Thu Jul 23 01:55:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 05:48:21 EDT References: <2459@whuts.UUCP> <758@custom.UUCP> <7651@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:3308 comp.sources.wanted:1691 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. I don't see what the problem is. The bdinr flags are specifiable per-field as well as globally.