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Windows Command Sort to sort on specified character in text file


If you want to sort all of the data in a text on a specified character number from the beginning of each line, use the command SORT in this format:

sort /+3 sort2.txt >list.txt

So if we begin with a file like this:

. . . and then we enter the command, whether to give the results in command prompt or write them to a text file . . .

We get the lines sorted alphabetically by the third character on each line:


Sean O'Shea has more than 20 years of experience in the litigation support field with major law firms in New York and San Francisco.   He is an ACEDS Certified eDiscovery Specialist and a Relativity Certified Administrator.

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