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Re: Sort from second field instead on second field

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* Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
| You can sort lines in the region on the second field with:
|     C-u 2 M-x sort-field
>
| In most cases this will probably be enough. But what if I would want
| to sort from the second field to the end of the line?

Mark the region and call

  C-u M-x shell-command-on-region RET sort -k FIELDNUM RET

       -k, --key=KEYDEF
              sort via a key; KEYDEF gives location and type

       KEYDEF  is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]] for start and stop position, where
       F is a field number and C a character position in the field;  both  are
       origin 1, and the stop position defaults to the line's end. [...]

?  Of course requires an external command compatible with Unix' 'sort(1)'.

R'

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Sort from second field instead on second field Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2023-03-29 17:53 +0200
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    Re: Sort from second field instead on second field Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2023-03-29 19:55 +0200
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    Re: Sort from second field instead on second field Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2023-03-30 07:03 +0200

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