Subject: Re: different behavior of sort
Sheila Yao writes:
> sort -n -k2.1,2.4 /tmp/sort.out
> /dev/emcpowera 47G 39G 7.8G 84% /DB1/DW/data9
The sort key is probably not what you think it is. I have marked it
for you. Since the sort key is identical in all
Sheila Yao writes:
> sort -n -k2.1,2.4 /tmp/sort.out
> /dev/emcpowera 47G 39G 7.8G 84% /DB1/DW/data9
The sort key is probably not what you think it is. I have marked it
for you. Since the sort key is identical in all lines, sort has used
as a last resort the wh
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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:54 PM
To: Sheila Yao
Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: different behavior of sort
According to Sheila Yao on 1/18/2010 12:32 PM:
> At one box, I've sort version 5.2.1 and sort works correctly. At another box
> with sort 5.97, it doesn't wor
According to Sheila Yao on 1/18/2010 12:32 PM:
> At one box, I've sort version 5.2.1 and sort works correctly. At another box
> with sort 5.97, it doesn't work correctly.
Both of those are quite old. The latest stable version is 8.4.
> It works correctly for this output:
It probably works corr
