[PLUG] 'sort' to find duplicate rows

Dale Snell ddsnell at frontier.com
Fri Jul 13 23:52:04 UTC 2012


On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Dale Snell wrote:
> 
> >    sort --key=1,2,4 filename.txt
> 
> Dale,
> 
>    This fails: sort does not like more than two digits for the key
> (start and end).

Ack!  You're right.  I've not used that feature of sort(1) before, and
I mis-read the man page.  mea culpa, mea culpa.

--Dale

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