Hello,
I was working with sort and noticed that I got some errors when string
lengths were multiples of 16. Here's a bash script to demonstrate the error:
( c="x"; list=""; length=0
for length in $(seq 1 48); do
echo "length == " ${length}
list=${list}${c}
echo -ne "${list}~\n${list}\n" | sort
done )
The line with the tilde (~) should always be second. However, when
${length} is some multiple of 16 and ${c} is not in [a-zA-Z], then the line
with the tilde is first. I've tried up to ${length}=1024.
The system is a RH7.0 box using sort (GNU textutils) 2.0e written by Mike
Haertel. I looked for updates on the RedHat site but did not find any.
HTH,
- Robert
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