Re: bug in sort

[Andreas Schwab]

"Rasmusson, Lars" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm running sort 
>
> $ sort --version
> sort (coreutils) 4.5.3
> Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
>
> both on Linux 2.4.20 and Windows cygwin
>
> on the attached file 
>
> with 
>
> $ sort -n -u data.txt 
>
> and
>
> $ sort -u data.txt 
>
>
> The first invocation (with -n) looses one line of the input, 
> namely the line with "0" (zero)

It's not lost.  The lines "0" and "slice" have the same sort key (namely
zero), and only one of them is output.

Andreas.

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