On 08/18/2014 09:55 AM, NTENTOS STAVROS wrote: > > Hello developers, > > Recently, using the sort utility I run into an omission. While I cannot > disclose the file in question, I will try to explain the issue: > On a Windows-created file (line ending: \r\n) I tried to perform a sorting, > which happened to sort the last entry somewhere above. The last line did not > have a line ending of any kind, and sort created a Unix-like ending (\r), > which afterwards creates a parsing problem with the file.
Well a \n is inserted actually, not \r, but yes that is a problem on windows. This demonstrates the behavior: $ printf '2\r\n1' | sort | od -Ax -tx1z -v 000000 31 0a 32 0d 0a >1.2..< The \n is inserted so as to delimit the reordered item appropriately, which is set here: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/sort.c;h=c2493192;hb=HEAD#l178 It seems that this should be set to '\r\n' on cygwin builds, (wither other adjustments to handle multiple chars). thanks, Pádraig.