From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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Subject: Re: sort-problem
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:53:05 GMT
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> I have sort (GNU textutils) 1.22 and want to sort the following
> lines from the 40. character-position. All the blanks are blanks,
> so I don't want to use fields. The invocation with
> 	sort +0.40
> doesn't work. Who can give me a hint?

If you do not want to sort on fields (words separated by whitespace),
but on columns, I think you might want to take a look at the -k
switch. I have used it like that before, for instance:

sort -f -k 1.80,1.109

Although Textutils is compiled with DJGPP, I don't think this
newsgroup is an appropriate place to ask questions about GNU utils in
general. Thinking about it, I cannot come up with an appropriate place
more specific than comp.unix.programmer, so... You have tried the
following haven't you?

info textutils sort

Hope this helps,

Groente, Michel.