On 25/05/2022 03:00, Larry Ploetz wrote:
I think I've found a bug in sort (git branch master). The --reverse flag
seems to be ignored when --keys are supplied.

     larryp-MBP:bin larry$ ./sort --version
     sort (GNU coreutils) 9.1.17-a351f
     Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or 
later<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
     There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

     Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
     larryp-MBP:bin larry$ ./sort -r <<< $'a\nb'
     b
     a
     larryp-MBP:bin larry$ ./sort -rk1,1 <<< $'a\nb'
     a
     b

Thanks for the report.
I pushed the following to address this
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=4e0167ea1

The existing tests are sufficient to catch this.

thanks!
Pádraig




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