using -t option with unix sort ?

[Nelis Lamprecht]

On 7/14/05, Daniel Malaby <dan at malaby.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to sort a tab delimited file with sort. The problem I am
> having is with the -t option. I do not know how to pass a tab.

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> sort -t \t

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> 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

remove the space between -t and \t and it should work

Regards,
Nelis