"Gordon Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I have 18 years experience with 'sort') > > [529] > cat dates > 142 01-APR-2006 > 16 01-DEC-2005 > 31 01-FEB-2006 > 13 01-JAN-2006 > 55 01-MAR-2006 > 13312 01-MAY-2006 > 1 01-NOV-2005 > 1 01-OCT-2005 > 145 02-APR-2006 > 13 02-DEC-2005 > [533] > cat may_dates | sort -k2.4,2.6M ## should work
"sort --help" says "If neither the -t nor the -b option is in effect, the characters in a field are counted from the beginning of the preceding whitespace." That's what's happening here. So you want sort -k2.5,2.7M, to take that white space into account. There's no bug. (Now you have 18 years plus 1 day experience with 'sort'. :-) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
