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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Thomas A Schweiger <tom.schweiger <at> acxiom.com>

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Thomas A Schweiger <tom.schweiger <at> acxiom.com>
Cc: 7323-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7323: sort bug
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:03:09 +0000

On 03/11/10 14:52, Thomas A Schweiger wrote:
> 
> I have found an anomaly in the sort utility.
> 
> If I sort on the 10th pipe delimited field using the command:
> 
> sort -t\| -k 10  source.dat

That sorts from the 10th field on.
If you just want the 10th field then use -k10,10
If the field is numeric (and not fixed width) use -k10,10n

cheers,
Pádraig.
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