Sort CSV file by column priority using the “sort” command
I have a csv file, and I would like to sort it by column priority, like "order by". For example: 3;1;2 1;3;2 1;2;3 2;3;1 2;1;3 3;2;1 If this situation was the result of a "select", the "order by" would be as follows: order by column2, column1, column3 - the result would be: 2;1;3 3;1;2 1;2;3 3;2;1 1;3;2 2;3;1 I'd like to know how to get this same result using "sort" command on Unix. sort --field-separator=';' --key=2,1,3 Charlie's answer above didn't work for me on Cygwin (sort version 2.0, GNU textutils), the following did: sort -t"," -k2 -k1 -k1 Suppose you have another row 3;10;3 in your