Sort BLAST 'Hit Table' by sequential alignment Pos (as opposed to E-value)

[sugarplumworld]

Hi all,

I am parsing in the nBLAST hit table into my program, except I would like to parse it in sequential order according to the alignment position of matches. The matches are ordered by default by e-value. Is there anyway to order by alignment position instead?

I am trying to avoid sorting them myself. The output was actually given to me as a text file, I have never used nBLAST myself, so please don't assume any prior knowledge I only know the basics of linux.

Thank you

[krobison]

Look at the manual page for sort; this is a tool you will use often.