"Béla Horváth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sort -t\<tab> -k3 -k6n ts.txt > k3 works fine, but k6 works not numerically. If I test only to sort for k6
The secondary key is ignored, because the primary key already provides unique keys. Since you didn't specify the end point of the key it defaults to the end of the line. If you want to sort on a single field use -k3,3. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
