Re: sort -g (generic numeric) is working only for the first key

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi Wasim,

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:09:43PM +0530, Wasim Akram S.N. wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know whether the following is really a bug.
> ...
> address@hidden:~/temp$ sort -g -k1,3 -t \t a

This tells sort to regard the first three fields as one key. I think
you need something like "sort -g -k1,1 -k2,2 -k3,3 -t \t a" which uses
the three fields as three keys. At least that results in your desired
output. ;-)

Br,
Erik