Evan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Observation: > > $ sort -k1.0,2 > sort: character offset is zero: invalid field specification `1.0,2' > > Now, this seems unnecessary to me; it *could* silently ignore the ".0" and > treat it as if you hadn't specified a character offset. (SCO does that.) > But, regardless, if that *is* going to be an error, then shouldn't this: > > $ sort -k1,2.0 > > ...be an error as well? It isn't.
POSIX specifies that that character position (if present) shall be positive for the field start spec and non-negative for the field end spec (with zero denoting the last character of the field). Thus GNU sort is behaving correctly. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
