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Bug in sort
From: |
Paddy Doyle \(Sysadmin\) |
Subject: |
Bug in sort |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:57:15 +0100 (IST) |
Hi,
There seems to be a bug in 'sort' from textutils-2.0 in how it treats
non-alphanumeric characters: it ignores them by default when sorting. I
know there are the -d and -i options to restrict sorting to alphanumeric
characters, but '-d' seems to be turned on by default.
Here's an example to illustrate:
~:> cat sortfile
index.12html
index18html
index16html
index.10html
index.11html
index10html
index-11html
index/10html
index10html
index12html
index17html
index11html
~:> sort sortfileindex/10html
index.10html
index10html
index10html
index-11html
index.11html
index11html
index.12html
index12html
index16html
index17html
index18html
Basically it performs the sort based only on the 'index[0-9][0-9]'
pattern, not taking the ``.-/'' etc into account.
I have tried this both with the RPM of textutils (textutils-2.0-2) and the
source (textutils-2.0) version.
Thanks in advance,
Paddy
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Paddy Doyle
Sysadmin, UCD Netsoc
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