TWIMC -- I believe I have found a bug in sort 2.0e which is included with RedHat 6.2. The following is an intermediate file which contains intermediate data in random order for a billing history report: ################### cut here ################### ~~~~~~~~|~~~~~|15102.65|1553.06|1341.51|453.09|214.58|0.00|18664.89 20001110|12|1145.67|151.02|11.29|34.37|7.96|0.00|1350.31 20001110|13|1142.50|87.41|116.76|34.28|34.54|0.00|1415.49 20001110|14|1212.31|92.74|126.77|36.37|65.61|0.00|1533.80 20001110|~~~~~|15102.65|1553.06|1341.51|453.09|214.58|0.00|18664.89 20001110|15|11186.17|1190.07|1082.30|335.59|74.04|0.00|13868.17 20001110|16|416.00|31.82|4.39|12.48|32.43|0.00|497.12 ################### cut here ################### This data is gathered by a gawk script then passed thru /bin/sort and it should come out by date + department as follows: ################### cut here ################### 20001110|12|1145.67|151.02|11.29|34.37|7.96|0.00|1350.31 20001110|13|1142.50|87.41|116.76|34.28|34.54|0.00|1415.49 20001110|14|1212.31|92.74|126.77|36.37|65.61|0.00|1533.80 20001110|15|11186.17|1190.07|1082.30|335.59|74.04|0.00|13868.17 20001110|16|416.00|31.82|4.39|12.48|32.43|0.00|497.12 20001110|~~~~~|15102.65|1553.06|1341.51|453.09|214.58|0.00|18664.89 ~~~~~~~|~~~~~|15102.65|1553.06|1341.51|453.09|214.58|0.00|18664.89 ################### cut here ################### Instead, the data comes out as passed to sort. Please help ! Thanks. -- kjh ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
