forcemerge 28846 28847 tag 28846 notabug close 28846 stop On 15/10/17 01:03, Tree Big wrote: > Dear coreutils : > I am a Research and Development Engineer in IT. I met a situation when I > use “sort” command in Linux shell which could be a bug for the "sort" > command. So I hope you read this email, thank you ! > > The whole command I used was ： > *sort test.txt* > > *And the result was :* > 20171012|3|2059517|-|8|-|20-24|2|-|2.0|2.0 > 20171012|3|2059517|-|82|-|25-29|2|-|13.0|12.0 > 20171012|3|2059517|-|8|-|-2|-2|-|71.0|64.0 > 20171012|3|2059517|-|82|-|30-34|0|-|2.0|1.0
Since at least field 5 is variable width you can't so a simple sort on the whole line. I'm not sure exactly what field order you want but you'll want something like: sort -t'|' -k1,1 -k5,5n cheers, Pádraig
