sort with tab field separator
Amadeus W.M.
amadeus84 at verizon.net
Sat Mar 22 21:18:11 UTC 2008
You would think specifying tab as a field separator for sort would work
like this:
cat file | sort -k 3 -t "\t"
It doesn't:
sort: multi-character tab `\\t'
So after a little search and some trial and error I got this to work:
cat file | sort -k 3 -t "`/bin/echo -e '\t'`"
For my own curiosity, can someone please illuminate me as to why the
first incantation does not work as expected? Is there a more natural way
to specify \t other than echo?
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