Lars M Gustafsson wrote:

>I am trying to sort a tab-separated textfile on column 3 with the "sort" 
>command, 
>but I can't get it to work, any sort wizzards out there ??

Assuming I have a file "test that contains:

1       d       line 1
2       c       line 2
3       b       line 3
4       a       line 4

Where the fields are tab separated, I can sort on the second field with:

sort +1 <test

Which produces:

4       a       line 4
3       b       line 3
2       c       line 2
1       d       line 1

Is that what you want?

-bob