Re: Error in sort

[Andrew D Jewell]

Instead of

sort -k2 -k3n

you want to say

sort -k2,2 -k3n

otherwise, you're saying "from 2 to the end"

I don't like the semantics myself, but that's the way it goes.

adj


At 4:00 PM +0200 4/8/02, Andreas Erb wrote:
> Hi,
> while sorting a file I encountered a strange behavior:
>
> sorting this file
> a x 10
> d y 1
> b z 1
> b x 1
> c z 4
> d x 3
>
> with
> sort -k2 -k3n tosort
> b x 1
> a x 10
> d x 3
> d y 1
> b z 1
> c z 4
>
> but should be
>
> b x 1
> d x 3
> a x 10
> d y 1
> b z 1
> c z 4
>
> Checked with sort 2.0.10 under Linux and 2.0.21 under cygwin
>
> Regards
> Hearp
>
>
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