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Annihilannic
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Have you looked at the sort man page (type man sort)?
+0.0 -0.8 means to use a sort key starting at character 0 of field 0 and ending at character 8 of field 0 (i.e. the first 9 characters).
-o is used for specifying an output file name, but your command seems to be missing that file name.
Annihilannic.
+0.0 -0.8 means to use a sort key starting at character 0 of field 0 and ending at character 8 of field 0 (i.e. the first 9 characters).
-o is used for specifying an output file name, but your command seems to be missing that file name.
Annihilannic.
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