Fw: sort broken?

[Matt Billenstein]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Billenstein" <address@hidden>
To: "CLUG TECH" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:35 AM
Subject: sort broken?


| Hi,
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| Shouldn't items 10-14 come after item 9 in one of the examples below?  Or
am
| I doing something wrong?
|
| address@hidden mbillens]$ cat s.txt
|  0 thread B[    1]
|  0 thread B[    2]
|  0 thread B[    3]
|  0 thread B[    4]
|  0 thread B[    5]
|  0 thread B[    6]
|  0 thread B[    7]
|  0 thread B[    8]
|  0 thread B[    9]
|  4 thread B[ 8001]
|  0 thread B[   10]
|  0 thread B[   11]
|  0 thread B[   12]
|  0 thread B[   13]
|  0 thread B[   14]
| address@hidden mbillens]$ sort -g -k 13,17 s.txt
|  0 thread B[    1]
|  0 thread B[   10]
|  0 thread B[   11]
|  0 thread B[   12]
|  0 thread B[   13]
|  0 thread B[   14]
|  0 thread B[    2]
|  0 thread B[    3]
|  0 thread B[    4]
|  0 thread B[    5]
|  0 thread B[    6]
|  0 thread B[    7]
|  0 thread B[    8]
|  0 thread B[    9]
|  4 thread B[ 8001]
| address@hidden mbillens]$ sort -n -k 13,17 s.txt
|  0 thread B[    1]
|  0 thread B[   10]
|  0 thread B[   11]
|  0 thread B[   12]
|  0 thread B[   13]
|  0 thread B[   14]
|  0 thread B[    2]
|  0 thread B[    3]
|  0 thread B[    4]
|  0 thread B[    5]
|  0 thread B[    6]
|  0 thread B[    7]
|  0 thread B[    8]
|  0 thread B[    9]
|  4 thread B[ 8001]
|
| Both work as expected on an SGI box running IRIX.
| The sort -n example works as expected on a Solaris box...
|
| thx
|
| m
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| Matt Billenstein
| mbillens (at) one (dot) net
| http://w3.one.net/~mbillens/
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