Murray Stokely wrote: > The current version of GNU sort on my Linux box incorrectly > sorts the following simple file, while an older version of GNU > sort on MacOS X 10.4 works fine. > > $ sort --version > sort (coreutils) 5.2.1
Version 5.2.1 is more than 18 months old (released 2004-03-12) and there have been a great number of changes since then. You might consider upgrading to the current stable version (5.92). But that is not relevant to the behavior below: > $ sort scrambled > version0/data/r=2/1/42 12.3 > version0/data/r=2/1/45 3.2 > version0/data/r=2 146839.1 > version0/data/r=2/1/51 10.9 > version0/data/r=2/1/52 6.6 > version0/data/r=2/1/54 7.5 This is working correctly as designed, though probably not how you expected. <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021>. Brian _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
