Oct 29, 2003 #1 hugheskbh Programmer Joined Dec 18, 2002 Messages 37 Location US Can someone please tell me what does the following command do: sort +0.0 -0.8 -o Thanks
Oct 31, 2003 #2 Annihilannic MIS Joined Jun 22, 2000 Messages 6,317 Location AU Have you looked at the sort man page (type man sort)? +0.0 -0.8 means to use a sort key starting at character 0 of field 0 and ending at character 8 of field 0 (i.e. the first 9 characters). -o is used for specifying an output file name, but your command seems to be missing that file name. Annihilannic. Upvote 0 Downvote
Have you looked at the sort man page (type man sort)? +0.0 -0.8 means to use a sort key starting at character 0 of field 0 and ending at character 8 of field 0 (i.e. the first 9 characters). -o is used for specifying an output file name, but your command seems to be missing that file name. Annihilannic.