GNU bug report logs - #72159
Numeric sorting does not work with 100.000 values

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72159-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72159: Numeric sorting does not work with 100.000 values
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:05:05 -0700

On 2024-07-17 02:28, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> $ LANG=C sort -k 1 -k 3,3n -r somefile.tsv

It's not a bug, because that 'sort' isn't doing what you think it's 
doing. Please try 'sort --debug' to see what's going on.
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