Andreas Schwab wrote on 10-03-08 19:54:
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.
True, but such constructs do happen.
What might have been the case here, and which is a
situation that I find myself in sometimes, is this:
you want to do 'filter1 FILE | filter2'
(or 'filter1 <FILE | filter2'). Somehow the output
isn't what's to be expected. You investigate, and
part of that is temporarily substituting filter1 for
plain cat and the command becomes 'cat FILE | filter2'.
Most of the time this is on the command-line.
bjd
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