Timeline for Sorting a table with a non-newline record separator in bash

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Oct 27, 2021 at 8:12	history	edited	fuumind	CC BY-SA 4.0	added tag
Oct 27, 2021 at 8:07	comment	added	Inian		If its a delimiter other than `\n` or `\0`, sort is of no help to you. What ever other tools that you could use Awk/Perl or GNU datamash all rely on knowing what the delimiter is `\|` and sorts it (like my answer)
Oct 27, 2021 at 8:06	comment	added	Inian		You can't use `sort` then. The man page says 'The sort utility sorts text and binary files by lines. A line is a record separated from the subsequent record by a newline (default) or NUL '\0' character'
Oct 27, 2021 at 8:03	history	edited	fuumind	CC BY-SA 4.0	Made examples in the question consistent
Oct 27, 2021 at 7:57	history	edited	fuumind	CC BY-SA 4.0	Clarified details in the question
Oct 27, 2021 at 7:49	history	edited	fuumind	CC BY-SA 4.0	rephrased the addendum in order to clarify
Oct 27, 2021 at 7:33	history	edited	fuumind	CC BY-SA 4.0	Added a desired condition.
Oct 27, 2021 at 7:22	answer	added	Inian		timeline score: 4
Oct 27, 2021 at 7:10	history	asked	fuumind	CC BY-SA 4.0