Re: sort -nu: bug or feature?

[Andrew Noymer]

for files with multiple (whitespace-delimited) fields, -nu does not return
unique lines. period.  I'm not talking about non-numeric garbage.  I'm
talking about all-numeric files.

Andrew

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Andrew Noymer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > My original query points out that -n uses the whole line (if no -k) but
> > -nu does NOT.
>
> -u does not change in any way how the sort keys are selected.
>
> Andreas.
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