Morning, Bob,
Bob Proulx wrote:
Mike Markowski wrote:
I think I've come across a bug in 'sort'. Using the attached file (please
let me know if the attachment is stripped from this email), I tried to sort
on the 5th column of states/countries by using:
sort -k 5 c3
The first few lines look like:
10-Apr-2008 W7GVE 729C Ed AZ 10.120
18-May-2008 W1GUE 1998 Ed NH 7.055
28-Apr-2008 KG4W 2416T Ed VA 7.055
11-May-2008 K4ZGB 796T Tom AL 7.055
16-May-2008 9A2VJ 2533 Vel CROATIA 14.052
[...]
already not properly sorted by state/country.
I think you have missed that unless you specify -b that spaces are
part of each field.
[...]
Thanks, Bob, and you're right. I definitely missed that. It struck me
as odd that such a heavily used program like 'sort' would have a glaring
bug like that...and, of course, it doesn't.
With -b, I can now easily sort a subset of my ham radio log. :-)
Thanks both for your help and for your speedy reply!
Mike
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