How to sort after occurence of the / character in a text file Linux console

Question

Say that I had a list of entries in a text file:

• Apple/bcd
• Pear/abc
• banana/def
• orange/cde

and I wanted to sort these entries in the console by what comes after the "/" so they were:

• Pear/abc
• Apple/bcd
• orange/cde
• banana/def

How do I use the sort function to sort this way without having columns there?
And by only using the sort function, no piping other commands?
I can only sort by the word before the "/".

Answer 1

Try this:

sort -t / -k 2,2 _file_

The -t / says the field separator is the / character. The -k 2,2 says to sort on field 2, which would be the characters after the first /.