On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:55:35AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > That way, you could use, e.g.: > > sort -k 2,2 -k R > > which would mean "sort by the 2nd field, but if there are ties then > sort the ties randomly". "sort -R" would be short for "sort -k R".
Perhaps this approach avoids the problems that were discussed earlier regarding expectations about lines with identical keys "shuffling" together. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
