On 28/06/10 19:42, Victor Grishchenko wrote: > On 28 June 2010 18:07, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 06/28/2010 08:26 AM, Victor Grishchenko wrote: >> Thanks for the report. However, I don't think this is a bug in sort, >> but rather a misunderstanding on your part. Your command says to use as >> your primary key the substring consisting of fields 17 through 30, and >> as secondary key the entire line. > > My fault. > Probably, it makes sense to reference the POS format explanation from > the -k option description.
Yes, that is the crux of the problem. I've already a tiny patch for that: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6442 I'll apply that, merge this bug with 6442 and close that. thanks, Pádraig.
