Re: sort:An unexpected result is displayed in the sort result.

[Chris Elvidge]

On 05/11/2021 09:31 am, Yang Yanchao wrote:
> Dear Coreutils Maintainers,
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> When I sort the use cases using "sort":
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> [root@localhost test]# cat test
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> 1.2.v1.6
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> 1.0.v3.5
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> 1.10.v2.4
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> [root@localhost test]# sort -n -t'.' -k3,3 -k4,4 test
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> 1.10.v2.4
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> 1.0.v3.5
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> 1.2.v1.6
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> The order I expected should be like this.
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> 1.2.v1.6
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> 1.10.v2.4
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> 1.0.v3.5
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>
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> It looks like the third column is alphabetic, and I added the -n option, which 
> was ignored, but I used -k to specify the third column as the first 
> priority.This means that -k has a lower priority than -n? Does this fit the 
> intended design?
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yang Yanchao

Try -V instead of -n

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Chris Elvidge
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