Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Paul Eggert wrote on 10-12-06 16:35:
> DI Oliver Maurhart <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yes, it does, but this "feature" is pain ass to enter on a bash-shell:
>
> Absolutely.  And this bothers me in many respects, not just
> with sort -t.  Perhaps you should be directing your bug
> reports to the Bash maintainer.  After all, in this
> particular context (and in the other contexts I'm thinking
> of) it should be perfectly obvious to Bash that the user
> just wanted to type a tab.

I must be missing the point, because in my bash ~/.inputrc
I have a line:

Tab: tab-insert

which makes <TAB> give me just that,a tab (\t, 0x9, \011).

bjd