Subject: bug#7731: Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard) macintosh system

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:11:43 -0800

On 12/24/2010 12:21 PM, Allen Delaney wrote:

> sort -u -s --key=1,1 sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata > xxx

That looks like bug 7489 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7489>,
which is fixed in coreutils 8.8.  Can you please give 8.8 a try?