$ hd /tmp/test.bug
[...]
00004d10 e0 b5 87 0a e0 b5 8b 0a e0 b5 8b 0a e0 b5 8b 0a |................|
00004d20 e0 b5 87 0a e0 b5 87 e0 b4 be 0a |...........|
00004d2b
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which contradicts "there is only one character in a line".
$ sort /tmp/test.bug | uniq -c
2158
1
2779
$ sort /tmp/test.bug | uniq -c | hd
00000000 20 20 20 32 31 35 38 20 e0 b5 87 0a 20 20 20 20 | 2158 .... |
00000010 20 20 31 20 e0 b5 87 e0 b4 be 0a 20 20 20 32 37 | 1 ....... 27|
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
00000020 37 39 20 e0 b5 8b 0a |79 ....|
00000027
So the output looks correct in this instance
Using (via a Devuan installation):
ii coreutils 8.32-4+b1 amd64 GNU core utilities
Phil
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