Bug 21350

Summary:	sort -t'\\' fails
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Felix Lee <flee>
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Felix Lee 2000-11-26 16:49:25 UTC

$ sort -t'\\'
sort: unrecognized option `-\'

Unix98 doesn't require this to work, but it works on Solaris, and it's an
odd anomaly.  sort -t'x' works as expected.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-01-12 15:39:45 UTC

Are you sure this works in Solaris? Looks incorrect to me...

It's 

sort -t'\'

or

sort -t"\\"

or is sort -t'\\' supposed to do anything else?

Comment 2 Felix Lee 2001-01-13 01:46:38 UTC

ah, you're right.  my mistake.

it happens to work on solaris because solaris's sort ignores extra junk after
the -t option.  'sort -tfoo' is equivalent to 'sort -tf'.

thanks.