I need to sort a file and preserve the order of tied cases
within the sort key. I can do this with
sort x, stable,
but I need to be in descending order. Gsort
will do this, but does not have the stable option. Can
anyone suggest how to do this?
Richard T. Campbell
Professor of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Address and other information at:
http://www.uic.edu/~dcamp
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