[tlug] Re: sort

[Sacha Chua <sacha@example.com>]

Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> writes:

> This is driving me nuts. I want to sort on the 3rd field descending
> then the 4th field ascending sort -k 3 -k 4r doesn't work. I can't
> work out how to get reverse order on the second key only.

If desperate, use the fact that you can make sort stable with the -s
option. Sort it by the second key first, then by the first, using -s
to preserve the order of rows that have the same first key.

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