Hi, I think I found a bug in "sort". Maybe this list is not the right place to report it, but I don't know where else to do it.
If I take the following file: sdf 4 trc xya 3 trt bal 1 trt blabla 0.5 abcd xyz 1 ggg xyz2 0.4 df xyz3 0.1 xyz5 xyz4 0.002 bal xyz5 0.1 xyz2 "sort +1 -2 example.txt" gives me the following result: xyz4 0.002 bal xyz3 0.1 xyz5 xyz5 0.1 xyz2 xyz2 0.4 df blabla 0.5 abcd bal 1 trt xyz 1 ggg xya 3 trt sdf 4 trc which is what I expect to happen, but if I use "sort -g +1 -2 example.txt" (-g according to man page: compare according to general numerical value) I get the confusing result: blabla 0.5 abcd xyz2 0.4 df xyz3 0.1 xyz5 xyz4 0.002 bal xyz5 0.1 xyz2 bal 1 trt xyz 1 ggg xya 3 trt sdf 4 trc Most probably I am messing up some things, but I don't know what. I am using this version with SuSE 9.2: sort (coreutils) 5.2.1 If I do the same thing in a cygwin shell, everything works the way, I expect it to work, i.e. I get for "-g" the sorted output as in "sort +1 -2 example.txt" And I get a numerical ordering, if I use exponential expressions like e.g. 7e-7 Is there somebody, who knows about this problem? Best wishes, Bernd -- Bernd C. Klein | Pomeziastrasse 9, 78224 Singen, Germany URL: http://www.bklein.de, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 07731/798180 Fax: 01805/3331602477 _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
