Error in sort

Andreas Erb <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Apr 2002 16:00:18 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Organization	Siemens AG
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,
while sorting a file I encountered a strange behavior:

sorting this file
a x 10
d y 1
b z 1
b x 1
c z 4
d x 3

with
sort -k2 -k3n tosort
b x 1
a x 10
d x 3
d y 1
b z 1
c z 4

but should be

b x 1
d x 3
a x 10
d y 1
b z 1
c z 4

Checked with sort 2.0.10 under Linux and 2.0.21 under cygwin

Regards
Hearp

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