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Selecting multiple delimiters in sort


From: tolugboji
Subject: Selecting multiple delimiters in sort
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:45:37 +0000

awk has the facility to use multiple delimiters

awk -F'[-.]' '{print $(NF-1), $0}'
Does not look like "sort" supports multiple delimiters.

If "sort" did support multiple delimiters, I could numerically sort the 
following set of filenames
using the second field.

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