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About the modifier of -k option in sort

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6529: closed (--key option problem)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:25:02 +0000

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and subject line Re: bug#6442: About the modifier of -k option in sort
has caused the GNU bug report #6442,
regarding --key option problem
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From: Victor Grishchenko <victor.grishchenko <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: --key option problem
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:26:51 +0200

Hi!

Today I've ran into a problem of the sort ignoring the --key parameter.
It sorts data according to the alphanumeric order of the full string instead.
Twiddling here and there (coreutils version, LC_ALL, positions, etc) did not work.
Any ideas?

harvest$ zcat data.log.gz | pcregrep '[TR]data' | head -10 | sort --key=17,30 
0_01_18_139_840 vtt1_100 vtt2_9#8 Tdata (0,8132)
0_01_19_377_086 vtt1_100 vtt2_9#8 Tdata (0,8132)
0_01_19_771_887 vtt1_100 vtt1_6#2 Tdata (0,7832)
0_01_19_794_385 vtt1_100 vtt1_2#3 Tdata (0,7832)
0_01_20_456_841 vtt1_100 vtt1_23#4 Tdata (0,8132)
0_01_21_444_514 vtt1_100 vtt2_6#7 Tdata (0,8132)
0_01_21_444_752 vtt1_100 vtt1_26#5 Tdata (0,7832)
0_01_22_944_496 vtt1_100 vtt2_8#9 Tdata (0,7835)
0_01_23_498_353 vtt1_100 vtt2_26#10 Tdata (0,7835)
0_01_23_612_298 vtt1_100 vtt1_4#6 Tdata (0,7832)
harvest$ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.5
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
harvest$ env
TERM=xterm-color
SHELL=/bin/bash
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/32
LC_ALL=C
PATH=/home/victor/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PS1=\W\$ 
SHLVL=1
_=/home/victor/bin/env
harvest$ 

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 6442-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6442: About the modifier of -k option in sort
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:24:47 +0100

I've applied this doc tweak:

On 17/06/10 09:30, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> --- a/src/sort.c
> +++ b/src/sort.c
> @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ Other options:\n\
>  "), stdout);
>        fputs (_("\
>    -k, --key=POS1[,POS2]     start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2\n\
> -                            (default end of line)\n\
> +                            (default end of line).  See POS syntax below\n\
>    -m, --merge               merge already sorted files; do not sort\n\
>  "), stdout);
>        fputs (_("\

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