Hi,
I am attempting to use the sort command on Linux (2.6), and it does
not seem to work the way I had expected. I tried various options in
the man page, but I could not get it to work. Any ideas???
I first attempted to sort the following file: (Delimiters are tabs)
------------- try_sort.txt ---------------
a x b c
a y b c
a x d e
----------------------------------------------
u...@servername:~$ sort try_sort.txt
a x b c
a x d e
a y b c
This seems OK to me. It seems to get the x’s together and the y’s
together, which is what I expected. I now changed x’s to be 0-1 and
the y’s to be 0:1
------------- try_sort1.txt ---------------
a 0-1 b c
a 0:1 b c
a 0-1 d e
----------------------------------------------
u...@servername:~$ sort try_sort1.txt
a 0-1 b c
a 0:1 b c
a 0-1 d e
Why is this different from the first case. I only expected x and y by
the above mentioned values, and it does not seem to sort.
I would be grateful if someone could help me sort this.
Thanks a lot,
O.O.
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