Luke Hutchison wrote: > Hi, > > The following is the output of GNU sort (without any switches) on an > unsorted file. Numerous errors (of the same variety) seem present in the > ordering. I am using coreutils-7.2-4.fc11.x86_64. Problems are shown in > red.
You need to specify the sort command you used. Does this sort your data correctly? sort -t, -k1,1V > Additionally, there probably needs to be a switch added to sort that uses > the entire line as the sort key, It does that by default > not blank-to-non-blank transition Note also the 'b' option. cheers, Pádraig.
