RE: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

[Gordon Grimes]

Eric,

I don't see it set in the cygwin environment. That said, everything
sorts fine if it's not embedded in a field.  I eventually had to do
this:

cat dates | sed 's%-% %g' | sort -k4 -k3M -k2n > sorted

after the following failed:
sort -k2.8n -k2.4,2.6M -k2.1,2.2n

Can you get it to work with embedded values?

Thanks,
gordon

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:46 PM
To: Gordon Grimes
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

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According to Gordon Grimes on 9/26/2006 6:01 PM:
> Hi,
> I'm unable to get "M" (month) to sort from within a field. See below.
> (I have 18 years experience with 'sort')
> 
> [529] > cat dates 
>     142 01-APR-2006
>      16 01-DEC-2005
>      31 01-FEB-2006
>      13 01-JAN-2006
>      55 01-MAR-2006
>   13312 01-MAY-2006
>       1 01-NOV-2005
>       1 01-OCT-2005
>     145 02-APR-2006
>      13 02-DEC-2005
> [533] > cat may_dates | sort -k2.4,2.6M   ## should work

Useless use of cat.  Try:
sort -k2.4,2.6M may_dates
to save a process.

>       1 01-NOV-2005
>       1 01-OCT-2005
>      13 01-JAN-2006
>      13 02-DEC-2005
>      16 01-DEC-2005
>      31 01-FEB-2006
>      55 01-MAR-2006
>     142 01-APR-2006
>     145 02-APR-2006
>   13312 01-MAY-2006

What's your locale?  And if it is not C, does 'LC_ALL=C sort' behave
differently?

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