[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6529: closed (--key option problem)

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> --key option problem
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> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:26:51 +0200
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> Hi!
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> Today I've ran into a problem of the sort ignoring the --key parameter.
> It sorts data according to the alphanumeric order of the full string instead.
> Twiddling here and there (coreutils version, LC_ALL, positions, etc) did not 
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> Any ideas?
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> harvest$ zcat data.log.gz | pcregrep '[TR]data' | head -10 | sort --key=17,30 
> 0_01_18_139_840 vtt1_100 vtt2_9#8 Tdata (0,8132)
> 0_01_19_377_086 vtt1_100 vtt2_9#8 Tdata (0,8132)
> 0_01_19_771_887 vtt1_100 vtt1_6#2 Tdata (0,7832)
> 0_01_19_794_385 vtt1_100 vtt1_2#3 Tdata (0,7832)
> 0_01_20_456_841 vtt1_100 vtt1_23#4 Tdata (0,8132)
> 0_01_21_444_514 vtt1_100 vtt2_6#7 Tdata (0,8132)
> 0_01_21_444_752 vtt1_100 vtt1_26#5 Tdata (0,7832)
> 0_01_22_944_496 vtt1_100 vtt2_8#9 Tdata (0,7835)
> 0_01_23_498_353 vtt1_100 vtt2_26#10 Tdata (0,7835)
> 0_01_23_612_298 vtt1_100 vtt1_4#6 Tdata (0,7832)
> harvest$ sort --version
> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.5
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> harvest$ env
> TERM=xterm-color
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/32
> LC_ALL=C
> PATH=/home/victor/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> PS1=\W\$ 
> SHLVL=1
> _=/home/victor/bin/env
> harvest$ 
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> I've applied this doc tweak:
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> On 17/06/10 09:30, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > --- a/src/sort.c
> > +++ b/src/sort.c
> > @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ Other options:\n\
> >  "), stdout);
> >        fputs (_("\
> >    -k, --key=POS1[,POS2]     start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2\n\
> > -                            (default end of line)\n\
> > +                            (default end of line).  See POS syntax below\n\
> >    -m, --merge               merge already sorted files; do not sort\n\
> >  "), stdout);
> >        fputs (_("\
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