On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 03:59:26PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > The text file has > 120k rows; each row has 8 columns. There are > duplicate rows that I want to eliminate. My reading of the sort man page and > various Web pages with examples tells me that the sort --key option is > limited to a sequential starting field and ending field. What I need is to > sort on fields 1, 2, and 4. You've a solution and all, but I'm curious.
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