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Re: sort -t: -k1 behaves strangely
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Eric Blake |
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Re: sort -t: -k1 behaves strangely |
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Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:05:10 -0600 |
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According to John Cowan on 4/23/2007 8:50 PM:
> Given the input (without the leading spaces)
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> Test Case:#1
> Test:#2
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> the command "LC_ALL=C sort -t: -k1" outputs the same, though the
> key "Test" should sort before "Test Case".
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.
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