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Re: sort -t: -k1 behaves strangely
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John Cowan |
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Re: sort -t: -k1 behaves strangely |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:31:20 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Eric Blake scripsit:
> Did you mean to use -k1,1 instead of -k1? Otherwise, you are stating that
> the key begins with the first field, but continues through the end of the
> line (with the field separators ignored), and since ' ' comes before '#',
> the output looked correct to me. Using -k1,1 swaps the line to list #2 first.
Ah, thanks. Unfortunately, this is documented only on the info page,
not on the man page or "sort --help". Adding "or EOL if omitted"
to those two sources would be very helpful.
I've probably never noticed the difference before, because I usually
sort tab-delimited rather than colon-delimited files.
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