Re: sort file without sort first line or first two lines ?

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> moonhkt <moonhkt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jan 21, 10:00 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <fda30a91-58d9-4a6c-9b1d-b229c8a66...@t35g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  moonhkt <moon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > How to sort file without sort first line or first two lines ?
>>>
>>> > Text file as below
>>> > MTH    NUM
>>> > JAN    A      1
>>> > APR    C
>>> > FEB    B      1
>>> > MAR    D      1
>>>
>>> > Expect Output
>>> > MTH    NUM
>>> > JAN    A      1
>>> > FEB    B      1
>>> > APR    C
>>> > MAR    D      1
>>>
>>> { head -1 file; tail -2 file | sort +k 2; } > sortedfile
>>>
>>
>> Tried, Not worked.
>
> You'll need  tail -n +2 file  here.

Or do something like

cat file | { IFS="" read -r x; echo "$x"; sort +k 2; } >sortedfile


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David Kastrup