RE: [OT] question regarding sort(1)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: Debian-User
> Cc: ronald.johnson@acs-inc.com
> Subject: Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote:
> > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37,
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on
> each whole
> > > line of text, where " " collates before "0", etc. I've looked in the
> > > man page, but see nothing.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> $ sort sort.example.txt
> 10,040,583 Violin_Concerto_in_D_major_Op._35.mp3
> 10,056,845 Symphony_5_Allegro_con_brio.mp3
> 10,101,975 MARS,_The_Bringer_of_War.mp3
> 1,011,879 rudolph's finale,instrumental.mp3
You should be able to do this by forcing sort to use a field separator that
does not appear in any line. Try "sort -t '$'". Sort should then treat each
line as a field and sort alphabetically.
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