Re: Sort within VI with parameters

Yeah that's what I think too

I've tried every incantation ( and yours) with no success

Thanks
Jay

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On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> 
>> I can't figure out the proper incantation
>> 
>> <esc>:%!sort -t| -k2,2
> 
> It looks like your field separator is getting interpreted as a 
> shell pipe character. Try escaping it like so:
> 
> <esc>:%!sort -t\| -k2,2
> 
> Or perhaps quoting it:
> 
> <esc>:%!sort -t'|' -k2,2
> 
> Colin
> 
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