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Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:21:56 +0000 |
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Luke Hutchison wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following is the output of GNU sort (without any switches) on an
> unsorted file. Numerous errors (of the same variety) seem present in the
> ordering. I am using coreutils-7.2-4.fc11.x86_64. Problems are shown in
> red.
You need to specify the sort command you used.
Does this sort your data correctly?
sort -t, -k1,1V
> Additionally, there probably needs to be a switch added to sort that uses
> the entire line as the sort key,
It does that by default
> not blank-to-non-blank transition
Note also the 'b' option.
cheers,
Pádraig.
- Sort order bug in GNU sort, Luke Hutchison, 2009/10/29
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- Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort, Luke Hutchison, 2009/10/29
- Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort, Eric Blake, 2009/10/29
- Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort, Luke Hutchison, 2009/10/29
- Re: Sort order bug in GNU sort, Luke Hutchison, 2009/10/29
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