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Re: bug in sort (GNU textutils) 2.0a


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: bug in sort (GNU textutils) 2.0a
Date: 28 Sep 2000 15:36:51 +0200
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Elon Portugaly <address@hidden> writes:
| I encountered a bug in sort (GNU textutils) 2.0a.
[...]
| sort does not correctly sort numerical fields:
|
| running 'sort -k1,1n' on the following input:
[...]

Thanks for the report.

That is due to a bug in some Redhat-specific changes.
There has never been such a problem in the GNU releases.
FYI, here's the latest test release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0g.tar.gz

I've heard you can get an rpm with a fixed version.



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