Package: msort
Version: 8.52-1.2+b1
Severity: normal
Feed STDIN & STDOUT (8 lines total) to 'cat -n' for line numbers.
Where did line 7 go?
% echo -e "b\na" | msort -l -n 1 2>&1 | cat -n
1Key 1 obligatory first field Increasing lexicographic
2Reading from stdin.
3Records processed: 2
4Sorting...
Records written: 0a
6b
2
8Comparisons: 1
A hex dump shows:
# show STDIN & STDOUT, with line count, 'msort'-ed, with
# hexdump format "count# 8hexbytes 8charnames"
% echo -e "b\na" | msort -l -n 1 2>&1 | \
cat -n | \
hexdump -v -e '1/1 "%_ad# "' -e '8/1 "%02X ""\t"" "' -e '8/1 " %_u\"
"\n"' | \
tail
264# 0A 20 20 20 20 20 37 09 lf 7 ht
272# 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 bs bs bs bs bs bs bs bs
280# 08 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 bs
288# 20 32 0A 20 20 20 20 20 2 lf
296# 38 09 43 6F 6D 70 61 72 8 ht C o m p a r
304# 69 73 6F 6E 73 3A 20 20 i s o n s :
312# 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
320# 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
328# 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
336# 20 20 20 20 20 20 31 0A 1 lf
...in bytes 270-280 we see the '7' (put there by 'cat -n') was
backspaced over nine times.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages msort depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libtre5 0.8.0-2 regexp matching library with appro
ii libuninum5 2.7-1+b1 library for handling numbers as Un
msort recommends no packages.
Versions of packages msort suggests:
pn msort-gui <none> (no description available)
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