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Bug in command sort?

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From: Oleg Moiseichuk <MetamAdeptus <at> gmx.net>
To: 67690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67690: Bug in command sort?
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 17:36:39 +0300

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Hello!

I've got a list of IP addresses, each of them is prepended by its frequency counter (please find attached in the file list-1.txt). I need to sort them from most frequent to least. I tried using this command:
sort -t '.' -n -k 1.1,1.8r -k 1.9 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 list-1.txt
But I've got some weird results.

Ok, I merged these counters with IP addresses using awk (file list-2.txt). Now they use the same separator and I can simplify the command:
sort -t '.' -n -k 1,1r -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 -k 5,5 list-2.txt > sorted-a.txt
It looks like as sorted properly but some entries with the counters 13 and 10 are misplaced.
Strangely enough, when I use direct order, they are sorted correctly:
sort -t '.' -n -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4 -k 5,5 list-2.txt > sorted-b.txt

Is it a bug or I'm doing something wrong?
I checked this in Ubuntu 22.04, sort version is 8.32.

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Best regards,
Oleg Moiseichuk

[list-1.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

[list-2.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

[sorted-a.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

[sorted-b.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

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