Shell Programming and Scripting

any command to sort the file one followed by another???
Ex: there are 5 fields 123,abc,manager,13-jan-1985,100000 like this
is there any command where manager shud come first and then abc???

Any help is appreciated.

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there is 1 file abc.dat and in tat file i have contents like empid,empname,empposition,dob,sal ok here i want to list or sort as empposition followed by empname?

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Is der any other command than awk??? I dont want to use awk here as i m new to this unix so

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its working fine but tel any other command rather than awk

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Its just I wanna know nobody has given assignment or homework for my knowledge I am justing posting here if not where should I post???

jainitai,
as rangarasan already pointed out, you should read the forum rules!