sort with tab field separator

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 23:49 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> How do I know Ctrl-V  + Ctrl-I is \t?

You can look up the old ASCII charts for the control codes.

Key sequence  Hex   Character / escape sequence / description
------------+-----+-------------------------
CTRL+G        07    BEL ’\a’ (bell)         
CTRL+H        08    BS  ’\b’ (backspace)
CTRL+I        09    HT  ’\t’ (horizontal tab)
CTRL+J        0A    LF  ’\n’ (new line)
CTRL+K        0B    VT  ’\v’ (vertical tab)
CTRL+L        0C    FF  ’\f’ (form feed)
CTRL+M        0D    CR  ’\r’ (carriage ret)

Hint:  Read across both columns in the "man ascii" output.

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