sort

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I check the man page but I still cannot see what this command is supposed to do

sort +5 -6 <file>

It just seems to sort the file as normal??

Thanks
Calypso

2

As I know

sort +5 -6 <file>

sort by the sixth column, but it's no longer supported. Instead the -k option can be used to do the same thing (note: "-k 6" for the sixth column)

3

Thanks for that, do you know what the 5 represent too?

4

google gave me this link

http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/sort.shtml