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From: tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: NO More and Thanks Re: Multiple Field Sorts in UNIX(tm)
Message-ID: <2469@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 07:24:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: whuts.2469
Posted: Wed Jul 22 07:24:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 01:38:43 EDT
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Summary: Question Answered
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In article <2459@whuts.UUCP>, tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) writes:
>  <*>
>  Now for the problem:
>  I need a multiple field sort that maintains sub-field order.  
Color me embarassed.  Seriously, I *really did* read the UNIX(tm)
manual, but missed the following:

"When there are multiple sort keys, later keys are
	compared only after all earlier keys compare equal."

e.g.
    You can use more than one field as a key.  Thus,
	    sort +0 -1 +4 -5 file
    will use FIELD1 FIELD5 as the key.


my thanks to:
Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
Ken rutgers!rochester!ken
(who leaped to my assistance, without flaming my faux pas.)

-- 
                         Terry Sterkel
        {clyde|harvard|cbosgd|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes
              [opinions are obviously only my own]