Re: Sort within VI with parameters

This is way overkill, but it DOES work this way:

:%!sh -c "sort -t '|' -k2,2"

Also, the last form in Colin's mail had worked for me on the mac's default vi, haven't had a chance to try it in vim yet.


On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Jay Strauss wrote:

> Yeah that's what I think too
> 
> I've tried every incantation ( and yours) with no success
> 
> Thanks
> Jay
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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