Subject: bug#6285: a possible bug of "sort -un", it is definitely not caused by language setting

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:52:19 -0600

On 05/27/2010 02:30 PM, daimh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	
> 	echo -e "3\n\n0"|sort -un

'echo -e' is inherently non-portable; you should get in the habit of
using printf(1) instead.

> 
> 
> 	0 is missing from output, is this a possible bug?

Thanks for the report.  However, I don't think it is a bug.  The empty
line, when forced to take on a numeric value, is equivalent to 0.  And
since you specified unique entries only, sort only printed the empty
line (the first of the two matching lines that it encountered).

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