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Re: sort bug
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: sort bug |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:13:01 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Bill Peeler <address@hidden> wrote:
> there appears to be a bug in the sort program.
> sort (GNU textutils) 2.0a
...
> sort -t , tiny_in -k 2nbd,2nbd -k 3nbd,3nbd -k 4nbd,4nbd -k 5nbd,5nbd
>
> i ran it and got the following output:
...
> input file:
> 3,20020109184710,30,2405,94,test
> 3,20020109232651,1,2430,14,test
...
> output:
> 3,20020109232651,1,2430,14,test
> 3,20020109184710,30,2405,94,test
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the report.
2.0a is pretty old.
Using the latest version, your example works just fine.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.19.tar.gz
BTW, `b' is the only option for which applying it to both
the starting and ending parts of a key specifier makes sense.
For all of the others it's ok, but redundant.
- sort bug, Bill Peeler, 2002/01/16
- Re: sort bug,
Jim Meyering <=