Eric Blake scripsit: > Did you mean to use -k1,1 instead of -k1? Otherwise, you are stating that > the key begins with the first field, but continues through the end of the > line (with the field separators ignored), and since ' ' comes before '#', > the output looked correct to me. Using -k1,1 swaps the line to list #2 first.
Ah, thanks. Unfortunately, this is documented only on the info page, not on the man page or "sort --help". Adding "or EOL if omitted" to those two sources would be very helpful. I've probably never noticed the difference before, because I usually sort tab-delimited rather than colon-delimited files. -- The man that wanders far [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the walking tree http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --first line of a non-existent poem by: John Cowan _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
