hi, i think we're getting to the point.
> I assume we're talking about coreutils 5.2.1 here? I don't remember. no, i was debugging on the source of coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz but in my fedora core-2 the "buggy" sort belongs to 5.2.1 in fact, the 5.3.0 version works right for the following case, consider the file: q.txt======(tab-separated columns) aa value-aa a value-a =========== and the command: sort -k 1,1 q.txt outputs correctly: a value-a aa value-aa for 5.3.0, but for 5.2.1 does not and this is the result: aa value-aa a value-a so this would close the case: 5.2.1 is buggy, 5.3.0 is fixed. however, i was confused (and confusing you, sorry!) in the previous email by the fact that both versions 5.2.1 and 5.3.0 output aa value-aa a value-a when sorting over the entire line: sort q.txt or more specifically: sort -k 1,2 q.txt should not sort output first "a value-a" than "aa value-aa" also when sorting over the entire line ?? cheers, robert. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
