Damien ANCELIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I met a problem with the sort command : I've used the uniq command with > the -c option to count some numbers, and then applying sort -n don't sort > lines by numeric order of the first field. > Here is an example (my sort version is 5.97) : > $ cat bug_sort | sort -n
This is a useless use of cat, you can just redirect sort's standard input from the file. > 1320 51970 > 1692 12345 > 22681 8060 > 26063 8649 > 2668 33603 > 3487 44496 > 4350 23246 > 47013 8000 > 5447 20000 > 81724 5000 I assume that you use the fr_FR locale. In this locale a number can be grouped with a space, thus it is considered part of the number. If you want to be sure that sort only considers the first field as sort key you should use -k1,1 to limit it. The default is to always use the the whole line as sort key, and sort -n will take as much as possible from the key to match a number. 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 Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
