Bug#410767: Numeric sort fails on csv files (-t ',') when locale is not C

[Michael Stone]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:10:24AM +1300, David Hall (coding) wrote:
FWIW, other similar commands:
$ printf 'rs1635242,25\nrs165179,1\n'|sort -t, -k1.3,1.99n
rs165179,1
rs1635242,25

Try:
printf 'rs1635242,1\nrs165179,25\n' | sort -t, -k1.3,1n

I think you're forcing sort to look at the 3 through 99'th character, 
overriding the delimeter.

Mike Stone


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