Re: Sort within VI with parameters

That's strange, it works on my vim (7.3). You might also try 
starting up vim without any .vimrc file, just in case you have a 
'sort' macro defined or some baloney. So perhaps try:

vim -u /dev/null

and then attempt your sort.

Colin

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:46:52 -0500 Jay Strauss <[email protected]> 
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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