3 ms·but what did you use to sort by the second field, in your original setup?by mynegation 8y agobut what did you use to sort by the second field, in your original setup?ikeboy 8y agoLC_ALL=C sort --field-separator=',' -k2 -nbewuethr 8y agoThis uses field 2 to the end of the line as the sort field; would k2,2 have been faster, as it limits to just the second field?ikeboy 8y agoThere were only 2 fields so I expect not.