>"A missing field_end shall mean the last character of the line." >Therefore, your key consists of the entire line, and sort is doing >exactly what you told it to do. > >Perhaps you meant: ># sort -u -k1,1 -s x.x > >to limit the key to just the first field?
Duh, you are exactly correct. (And so is sort...) I wonder how many screwed up key specifiers I have accumulated through years of clueless misuse? :-) Thanks, and have a good weekend, Scott _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
