[PLUG] Sorting A Text File on Multiple Fields

[Joe Shisei Niski]

On 09/01/2011 12:58 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:52:08 -0700 (PDT)
> Rich Shepard<rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>  dijo:
>
>> >In my experience spreadsheets are the absolute worst tool to do this job...
> I agree. That's why I always use a database for a task like this.

...and yet the *ix shell environments are chock full of underrated and 
underutilized tools such as sort, cut, grep, sed, awk, etc., etc. that 
are much quicker to pick up far more appropriate for working with flat 
files than a DBMS.

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Joe Shisei Niski
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