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The sort command has a parameter “-t” to declare the fields separator instead of the default blank. For example:
sort -t 'a' file
what if I want to use a non-printable char as the spearator, like the fifth char in ASCII table ?
There is a special quoting in bash, that can be used for this purpose. Try the following command and look for
$'...'in the bash manual: