On 12/05/10 12:08, Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> The attached patch allows one to: >> >> $ printf "one 2 3e3e" | .sort --debug -k3,3g -k2,2 >> one 2 3e3e >> ___ >> __ >> __________ > > Nice. Thanks for writing all of that. > These changes are sure to be useful. > > I have merely glanced through them (look fine so far), > but would not mind at all if you were to push the series as-is.
I pushed the first, and I then pushed the following to fix a test failure pointed out by our continuous integration box http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master I'll probably push patch 2 tomorrow. cheers, Pádraig. diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys b/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys index 0437678..0f05025 100755 --- a/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys +++ b/tests/misc/sort-debug-keys @@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ _____ ___________________ EOF -( if test "$LOCALE_FR_UTF8"; then + ( echo " 1²---++3 1,234 Mi" | LC_ALL=C sort --debug -k2g -k1b,1 echo " 1²---++3 1,234 Mi" | @@ -309,9 +309,8 @@ if test "$LOCALE_FR_UTF8"; then echo "+1234 1234Gi 1,234M" | LC_ALL=$LOCALE_FR_UTF8 sort --debug -k1,1n -k1,1g \ -k1,1h -k2,2n -k2,2g -k2,2h -k3,3n -k3,3g -k3,3h + ) > out + compare out exp || fail=1 fi -) > out - -compare out exp || fail=1 Exit $fail
