rasort issues

[Russell Fulton]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:58:49 -0400 Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> 
wrote:

> Well the problem is that we're using "-r filename".

Doh!  you don't want to specify iput files do you :-)

I should know better than to post before engaging the brain!

> I'm not that excited about '^' but its better than
> '~' and '!' which are all special to shells.
> 
> Does '+' make any sense?
> 
>    rasort -r filename -s +sorttag
> 

Hmmmm Like Mark, I think I prefer ^ as it is already used as to 
indicate negation or complement in some other contexts (like regurlar 
expressions) -- I guess that's why it occurred to you.

Cheers, Russell