Re: sorting lines by two first virtual column

This worked for me.  Put the cursor on the first line and type:

  !}sort

See the unix man page on sort for any additional options you may want to through at it.

The !  tells vim you want want process a block of text thru an external program

The } tells vim to send this paragraph

'sort' is the command to do the filtering/processing.

that's my basis understanding of what is happening.

On Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 3:41:51 AM UTC-5 niva...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I would like to sort lines by order ascendant by the alphabetical value of the two first columns.

 2021/01/13 15:05:52.417 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:05:52.417 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:05:52.417 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 FOO

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 BAR

 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 BAR

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