$ sort --version sort (GNU textutils) 2.0 As seen using the enclosed test data, gnu sort appears to misinterpret the character position component of the -k flag. Sun's sort program works as expected, and gnu sort behaves the same way if the offsets are decremented.
sun sort, correct: sort -f -k 2n -k 2.6M,2.8 gnu sort, wrong: sort -f -k 2n -k 2.6M,2.8 gnu sort, oops: sort -f -k 2n -k 2.7M,2.9 Sample input, 192 2000-September.txt.bz2 80 2000-October.txt.bz2 152 2000-November.txt.bz2 88 2000-December.txt.bz2 428 2001-January.txt.bz2 156 2001-February.txt.bz2 104 2001-March.txt.bz2 260 2001-April.txt.bz2 192 2001-May.txt.bz2 172 2001-June.txt.bz2 136 2001-July.txt.bz2 168 2001-August.txt.bz2 1016 2001-September.txt.bz2 216 2001-October.txt.bz2 252 2001-November.txt.bz2 108 2001-December.txt.bz2 128 2002-January.txt.bz2 208 2002-February.txt.bz2 192 2002-March.txt.bz2 292 2002-April.txt.bz2 384 2002-May.txt.bz2 240 2002-June.txt _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
