Sorting months (option 'M') with character positions only works in the first field.
root# sort --version sort (GNU textutils) 2.0 Written by Mike Haertel. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The data: root# cat test3 02 Jan 02 Jul 02 Aug 02 Feb 02 Nov 02 Mar 02 Sep 02 Jun 02 Dec 02 Oct 02 May 02 Apr Sorting it on the month values does not work with character positions (sorting is done lexically): root# sort -k 2.1,2.3M test3 02 Apr 02 Aug 02 Dec 02 Feb 02 Jan 02 Jul 02 Jun 02 Mar 02 May 02 Nov 02 Oct 02 Sep The same thing with the month data in the first field works: root# cut -d" " -f2 test3 | sort -k 1.1,1.3M Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Sorting test3 on the whole second field works fine (e.g. sort -2,2M test3). But of course I need it for data where character positioning is necessary (e.g. where I have something like "#Jan#"). This example is only to be as simple as possible. _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
