using -t option with unix sort ?

[Nelis Lamprecht]

On 7/14/05, Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > sort -t \t
> 
> </snip>
> 
> >
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> 
> remove the space between -t and \t and it should work

actually scratch that, it works either way. can you give a sample of the data ?

Regards,
Nelis