Solved.
$ sort -k 1.42,1.42 -k 1.9,1.15n -k 1.1,1.7n infile -o outfile
the issue seem to be that field number 2 and 3 were numeric
I guess we should just keep telling ourselves that unix is different,
on our MVS sort was smart enough to deal with the numeric on it's own.
thank you for your time every-one
Kurt Carlson <sxkac_at_java.sois.alaska.edu>
Richard L. Eisenman <eisenman_at_tricity.wsu.edu>
Phil Farrell <farrel_at_pangea.Stanford.EDU>
Pirie Hart <pirie_at_u.washington.edu>
David Hinz <dhinz_at_dna406.dna.mci.com>
Steven E. Newton <snewton_at_oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
Hans Ullitz-Mxller <hum_at_biobase.dk>
I don't think I left any one out.
Special thanks to David Hinz, for trying it on his hardware.
--
H. Blakely Williford Men never do evil so completely and
Systems Administrator cheerfully as when they do it from
The Fuller Brush Company religious conviction. (Pascal)
Received on Fri Feb 14 1997 - 20:11:02 NZDT