Instead of sort -k2 -k3n
you want to say sort -k2,2 -k3n otherwise, you're saying "from 2 to the end" I don't like the semantics myself, but that's the way it goes. adj At 4:00 PM +0200 4/8/02, Andreas Erb wrote: >Hi, >while sorting a file I encountered a strange behavior: > >sorting this file >a x 10 >d y 1 >b z 1 >b x 1 >c z 4 >d x 3 > >with >sort -k2 -k3n tosort >b x 1 >a x 10 >d x 3 >d y 1 >b z 1 >c z 4 > >but should be > >b x 1 >d x 3 >a x 10 >d y 1 >b z 1 >c z 4 > >Checked with sort 2.0.10 under Linux and 2.0.21 under cygwin > >Regards >Hearp > > >_______________________________________________ >Bug-textutils mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
