Re: sort feature (can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet)

[Paul Eggert]

Edward Peschko <address@hidden> writes:

> So how do you do this? I see the '-z' option, but I would think
> there would be a generic line separator option like there was a
> field separator option.
>
> Is this there, or was this truly an oversight?

You're right, it's not there.  (Perhaps you could add it?....)

> I want to sort a record which has a delimiter other than a newline
> (its a data file with a delimiter of '\<newline>' because the data
> itself has newlines in it).

If the data doesn't have nulls, then you can turn the \<newline> into
a null, sort that, and then turn it back to \<newline> afterwards.
Otherwise I'm afraid you're out of luck the way things stand.