[email protected] wrote: > Eric Blake writes: >> On 04/16/2010 04:58 AM, Santiago Rodriguez wrote: >> > I think I have found a bug in sort coreutils command. When I type >> > >> > sort -T /tmp +1 -2 +2rn -3 +0 -1<<EOF >> > perra/S perra 2.200000 >> > perro/PS perra 4.400000 >> > EOF >> >> Thanks for the report; however, this is not a bug. >> >> The syntax 'sort +1' is obsolete. You are better off rewriting your > > When you pry it from my cold dead hands...
It has been declared "obsolete" for a good reason: it is ambiguous. If you require that syntax, use some other sort program.
