Bug 11104 - The `-n' flag to sort does not work properly
Summary: The `-n' flag to sort does not work properly
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: textutils
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Whiteboard:
: 11685 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-04-28 18:54 UTC by mw
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2000-05-05 13:52:25 UTC
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Description mw 2000-04-28 18:54:09 UTC 
Consider the following outputs:

$ cat number
1
12
10
8

$ sort -n number
8
10
12
1

This does not look like the numerical order---the flag `-g' shows what I
wanted to see:

$ sort -g number
1
8
10
12

I do not see the problem on RH 6.1 which has textutils-2.0 and not
textutils-2.0a

Mate
Comment 1 mw 2000-04-28 21:07:59 UTC 
It turns out that compiling textutils-2.0a from sources results in a sort which
does not show the bug.

# ./textutils-2.0a/src/sort -n ~mw/number
1
8
8
10
10
12

So the bug got introduced by the patches RH applied.

Mate
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-05-05 13:52:59 UTC 
Thanks, fixed in rawhide
Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-06-12 20:35:23 UTC 
*** Bug 11685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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