Bug 11383

Summary:	/bin/sort does not sort properly if -n switch is used
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Marko Hrastovec <marko.hrastovec>
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	craig.martin, kreucher, pbrown, peter.benie
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Description Marko Hrastovec 2000-05-12 09:54:09 UTC

/bin/sort program does not sort properly if -n switch is used.
If used without switches it seems to work fine. I haven't tried
other switches.

Regards
Marko

PS.
I hope you will fix the bug soon. I have copied some older sort
which works OK.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-05-24 19:23:59 UTC

Bero, I can duplicate this problem.  Do we have a fix available yet?

Comment 2 Göran Uddeborg 2000-06-01 19:14:54 UTC

This is the same as 10570 and 11104 I assume.  (Marked resolved.)

Comment 3 Craig Martin 2000-06-08 04:02:07 UTC

Futher information on this problem - We have found that there is a patch in Red
Hat 6.2 that provides the '-l' flag.  This seems to cause 'sort -n' to skip
sections of code and produce a bad sort if the '-l' flag is not actually used. 
If it is used the program works OK.  - Craig Martin

Comment 4 peter.benie 2000-06-28 10:17:41 UTC

For me, adding -l to the arguments does not solve the problem.
(textutils-2.0a-2)

Comment 5 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-08 16:59:07 UTC

Use LANG="C" sort if you don't like the POSIX sorting "feature".