go go gadget SPREADSHEET -wes
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a largish file with 4 fields, separated by the '|' symbol. Reading > the sort man page suggests that I can sort on only the first field and I > want to sort on the first field, then on the second field, then on the > third > field. > > Trying to sort just the first field causes bash to complain bitterly: > > [rshepard@salmo ~/projects/nevada/queenstake/stats]$ sort -t=| streams.txt > > > out.txt > -bash: ./streams.txt: Permission denied > > sort didn't like the -o=outputfile option so I tried redirecting. > > What other tool would allow me to do a hierarchical sort of a 15K row > file? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
