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Re: Double Sort on a fileby PhiRatE (Monk) |
on Jul 22, 2002 at 22:13 UTC ( [id://184254]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
sort can take multiple -k arguments. Try sort -n -r -k 5 -r -k 6 filein -o fileout (I seem to recall thats how it works, a quick test seems to agree).
Of course, there is a time in every datas life when it should really be loaded into a database instead..
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