Subject: sort order

From: e.sambasivarao <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:10:11 +0530

Dear Sir,

By using the following sort command to sort the input
file due, the output due is showing as :

sort -dfi -k1.11,1.39 -odue due

123180024 BIJJALA ESWARA RAO               1580.50
061233693 BIJJALA JANARDHAN RAO            2280.00
123812394 BIJJALA VENKATESWAR RAO          1682.50
123349123 BIRJALA JANARDHAN RAO            2794.20
123712310 B.KRISHNA MURTHY                 2362.50
123234123 B MUTHAIAH                       1727.00
038123230 B NAGESWAR RAO                   1625.00
121237123 BODA VIJAYA                      2827.00
041237267 BODDU APPAIAH                     485.60
123123361 BODDU SRINIVASA RAO              4540.00
012316123 BODDU VEERA SWAMY                1527.50

Sorting was on name order (i.e. position 11 to 39)
After 4 records i.e after BIRJALA JANARDHAN RAO,
we find B.KRISHNA MURTHY where as B.KRISHNA MUTHY,
B MUTHAIAH, B NAGESWAR RAO come first in sorted
order , kindly guide us.

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