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Feb 262010
 

How to sort a file by n-column

Answer:

Suppose you have a CSV file:

1,c
2,d
3,a

How do you sort by the 2nd column?

Here is the command you need:

# sort -k2 input.txt -t ','

where -t ',' mean the comma separator, and -k2 mean the 2nd column.

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