[ale] sort key help request

[Dow Hurst]

I used sed to switch to ! from tabs.  I'd still like to know how to define a 
tab as the sort key.
Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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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