From:	pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: sort -u problem/question
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 1998 03:56:55 GMT
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pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III) wrote:
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>Command and sample output used to sort on fields 3 and 6 with -u, tab
>specified as field separator:
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>C:\stest>sort +2 +5 -t \t -u sortuniq.tst
>field1  field2  field3 9 field3 field4  field5  field6/9        field7

Followup to my own post: I also re-read the info page on sort, and
after managing to understand keys a little better, decided to try the
POSIX key specification instead, with the same results as before:

C:\stest>sort -t \t -k 3,3 -k 6,6 -u sortuniq.tst
field1  field2  field3 9 field3 field4  field5  field6/9        field7

I also tried this on Caldera OpenLinux Lite V1.2, with identical
results, so I suspect I'm not understanding something basic here.

Again, TIA for any help or assistance you can provide.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR
                     pjfarley AT nospam DOT banet DOT net)

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