Cliff Miller wrote:
hi,
i have a bug to report in coreutils-7.4. the problem occurs with
empty fields under -n/-g, specifically in sub-field specifications where
end start. according to the docs,
If the start position in a sort field specifier falls after the end of
the line or after
Cliff Miller wrote:
the non-trivial case here is when -b is present in the form
sort -k2.1b,2.3
where the start and end positions could be in either order depending
on the number of blanks that start field 2.
Right, good point.
I've added a test for that case also and pushed the
Cliff Miller wrote:
hi,
i have a bug to report in coreutils-7.4. the problem occurs with
empty fields under -n/-g, specifically in sub-field specifications wher=
e
end start. according to the docs,
If the start position in a sort field specifier falls after the end of
the line
Thanks for the analysis and patch!
I'll take a look at this this evening as
I've been looking at this area recently.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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hi,
i have a bug to report in coreutils-7.4. the problem occurs with
empty fields under -n/-g, specifically in sub-field specifications where
end start. according to the docs,
If the start position in a sort field specifier falls after the end of
the line or after the end field, the field
