tags 8394 + notabug
thanks
Toralf Förster wrote:
> I'm wondering about the output b/c Im missing 2 strings :
>
> $> echo "X y z 1 2 3" | xargs -n 1 | sort -n -u
> X
> 1
> 2
> 3
That's because you've specified -n (--numeric-sort)
yet gave it non-numeric data. Each non-numeric
value is mapped to the same "invalid" quantity, and
since three values are "invalid" and you also used -u,
you see only one of them in the output.
For the record, you can reproduce it more simply like this:
$ printf '%s\n' X y z 1 2 3|sort -n -u
X
1
2
3
Remove either the -n or the -u and you'll see all values.
I've marked the issue your message created as "closed".
For next time, we prefer that questions be addressed
to [email protected], since there they don't automatically
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