[ale] sort key help request

[Dow Hurst]

I have a tab delimited file I want to sort on the second and eighth fields.

sort -t \t -k 2b,2 -k 8,8 inputfile > outputfile

is what I have tried.  Doesn't work and I think the \t is what is wrong but 
aren't sure.  How do I specify a tab character as the delimiter?

Thanks,
Dow

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