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bug#19021: Possible bug in sort
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Eric Blake |
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bug#19021: Possible bug in sort |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:29:33 -0700 |
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On 11/11/2014 11:27 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
[please don't top-post on technical lists - it makes it harder to figure
out what you are asking]
> Why not have used sort -t ',' -k 1n ?
>
>>
>> This results in line 7 being sorted incorrectly: sort -t , -k 1n < weird.csv
Are you asking the difference between:
sort -t , -k 1n
sort -t ',' -k 1n
If so, there's no difference. The shell strips the '' quoting around ,
before invoking sort, so argv[] is the same in either spelling from the
shell.
But that has nothing to do with the bug report, where the answer is that
the caller should have been using:
sort -t , -k 1,1n
or
LC_ALL=C sort -t , -k 1n
or the combination:
LC_ALL=C sort -t , -k 1,1n
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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