On 12/02/2010 12:03 AM, gregwm wrote:
> how do you tell sort to ignore the first x characters of each line and
> start the key at character x+1?
> 
That would be "sort -t'*' -k 1.9" if I understand it correctly.

Replace '*' with something else if it might appear in the characters to
be skipped.

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Dan