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Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:00:23 +0100 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I also noticed that freeBSD/Mac OS X use coreutils sort
> so they have the same issue.
> Also the i18n patch in fedora 8 at least seems
> to be varying one of the problems somewhat:
>
> upstream buggy coreutils:
> $ printf "a y\na z\n" | sort -k1,1b #buggy
> a z
> a y
> $ printf "a y\na z\n" | sort -k1b,1 #ok
> a y
> a z
>
> fedora 8:
> $ printf "a y\na z\n" | sort -k1,1b #ok
> a y
> a z
> $ printf "a y\na z\n" | sort -k1b,1 #buggy
> a z
> a y
>
> So I'll add the attached test I think to check for that.
Good catch. Thanks.
...
> +# When ignoring leading blanks for start position, ensure blanks from
> +# next field are not included in the sort. I.E. order should not change here.
> +# This was noticed as an issue on fedora 8 (only in multibyte locales).
> +["18g", '-k1b,1', {IN=>"a y\na z\n"}, {OUT=>"a y\na z\n"}, {ENV =>
> "LC_ALL=$locale"}],
Please split that longer-than-80 line onto two, e.g.:
["18g", '-k1b,1', {IN=>"a y\na z\n"}, {OUT=>"a y\na z\n"},
{ENV => "LC_ALL=$locale"}],
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/03
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Andreas Schwab, 2009/02/03
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Davide Canova, 2009/02/04
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/24
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/26
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Jim Meyering, 2009/02/26
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/26
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Jim Meyering, 2009/02/26
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Jim Meyering, 2009/02/26
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect, Pádraig Brady, 2009/02/27
- Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect,
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