Ancient sort version?

Linda haniganwork at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 5 20:10:03 UTC 2013


On 08/05/2013 01:56 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> So "sort +2" is equivalent to "sort -k 3". cheers, mike 

Just curious what -k denotes I checked man sort and it says 
start a key at POS1 end at POS2 but I'm not sure what that 
means. So what is a key?
I've always used -t and sorted by fields just curious what 
it means to sort by a key.
                 Linda




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