Subject: bug#42211: Problem in sort

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 01:52:13 -0700

On 7/4/20 2:39 PM, Richard Freedman wrote:
> When I use sort -n -c on a specified column in a file sort reports an error and then stops if two numbers are exactly the same.

Could you send us the input, and the output of "sort --debug -n -c -k3"
(assuming you're using column 3)? My guess is that the output will explain the
symptoms you're seeing, but if not then we'd like to see the test case. Thanks.