-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Greg Minshall on 10/6/2007 4:28 PM: > hi. i want to sort first alphabetically on field 1 then numerically on field > 2 (so, field 2 is the secondary key). it seems that when running, field 2 > becomes the major key.
Not a bug in sort, but in your usage patterns. > > i've tried: > sort -s +1 -n +2 > sort -s +1 -s -n +2 > sort -s +1 -sn +2 > sort -n -s +1 -s +2 > sort -k1 -s -k2n All of these have the same property - you specified the start, but not the end, of the key - by default, sort assumes that the key continues to the end of the line unless you tell it otherwise. Try 'sort -k1,1 -k2,2n' instead. > > ps -- when did the "+m.n" format become deprecated? Posix? or...? Yes - POSIX 2001 removed support for it. Read more about it in the coreutils NEWS file, as well as the info pages. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHCBti84KuGfSFAYARAgatAJ97iemkqsdS/uzxvgpZGchT53SIYwCgqcwH k4WTEoItvGhqtXAagsvABhQ= =9OOu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
