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Re: sort -m fails to merge >2 files
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Eric Blake |
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Re: sort -m fails to merge >2 files |
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Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:57:27 -0600 |
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According to Stephen Quan on 7/30/2007 7:22 PM:
> sort -m fails for files greater than two (2)
Thanks for the report. However,
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> 8
> 10
since this was not sorted...
> 10
> 9 <-------------------------------------------------------- out of sequence
..sort behaved exactly as documented:
-m, --merge merge already sorted files; do not sort
Perhaps you meant 'sort -m -n 1 2 3' for merging a numeric sort?
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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