David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > moonhkt <moon...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Jan 21, 10:00 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >>> In article >>> <fda30a91-58d9-4a6c-9b1d-b229c8a66...@t35g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, >>> >>> >>> >>> moonhkt <moon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > How to sort file without sort first line or first two lines ? >>> >>> > Text file as below >>> > MTH NUM >>> > JAN A 1 >>> > APR C >>> > FEB B 1 >>> > MAR D 1 >>> >>> > Expect Output >>> > MTH NUM >>> > JAN A 1 >>> > FEB B 1 >>> > APR C >>> > MAR D 1 >>> >>> { head -1 file; tail -2 file | sort +k 2; } > sortedfile >>> >> >> Tried, Not worked. > > You'll need tail -n +2 file here.
Or do something like cat file | { IFS="" read -r x; echo "$x"; sort +k 2; } >sortedfile -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss