On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, JJB wrote:
> Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info
> does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands
> to feed it data.
You don't have to use pipes or redirection:
sort -n /etc/hosts
> Don't you think the man sort info needs
At 2004-04-23T13:00:17Z, "JJB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info does
> it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to feed it
> data.
It doesn't because you don't. The syntax is:
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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In the last episode (Apr 23), JJB said:
> Thank you that worked. You know that nowhere in the 'man sort' info
> does it say that to use sort command you have to use pipe commands to
> feed it data. How is somebody without UNIX programming background
> going to read that and know how to feed sort it
004 5:35 PM
To: JJB
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
Subject: Re: Specifying sort fields
In the last episode (Apr 22), JJB said:
> How to specify the fields the sort program is to sort on?
>
> My file has blanks between the fields and I want to sort on
> field number 9 which is ip address.
>
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In the last episode (Apr 22), JJB said:
> How to specify the fields the sort program is to sort on?
>
> My file has blanks between the fields and I want to sort on
> field number 9 which is ip address.
>
> I want to sort filea and put results in fileb.
>
> A sample of the sort command to be us