Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

[Paul Eggert]

DI Oliver Maurhart <address@hidden> writes:

> I've noticed that sort doesn't use the tab as delimiter when
> provided by the '-t' option.

Actually it does, if you invoke it this way:

     sort -t '  ' -k 2 FILE

Note that there is a tab between the two apostrophes.

It might be nice for 'sort' to support a more extended syntax, but
in the meantime the above technique will work without changing
'sort' (also, it's portable to other platforms).