Re: [coreutils] Bug (?) in sort -R

2010-08-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/16/2010 01:22 PM, Jason wrote: > I can't decide if this is a bug or not. Apologies if this has already been > discussed I am pretty new to the list. I'm using the latest git version, > 8.5.136-6d78c. > > If you do > > sort -R -k 4,4 a > b > > the relative ordering of column 4 is different

[coreutils] Bug (?) in sort -R

2010-08-16 Thread Jason
I can't decide if this is a bug or not. Apologies if this has already been discussed I am pretty new to the list. I'm using the latest git version, 8.5.136-6d78c. If you do sort -R -k 4,4 a > b the relative ordering of column 4 is different then if you do sort -R -k 4,5 a > b. (obviously the a