Hi,
It seems to me that the `-n' and `-g' flags to sort are partially
"interchanged" .
Indeed, look at the following outputs
$ cat number
1
12
10
8
$ sort -g number
1
8
10
12
sort -n number
8
10
12
1
It is even noticable that `-n' runs slower than `-g'---contrary to the
info statement for the flag `-g':
Use this option only if there is no alternative; it is much
slower
than `-n' and it can lose information when converting to floating
point.
I have textutils-2.0a running on RedHat GNU/Linux 6.2.
Thx
Mate
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
