Bug 21350 – sort -t'\\' fails

Bug 21350 - sort -t'\\' fails

Summary:	sort -t'\\' fails

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	textutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2000-11-26 11:49 EST by Felix Lee
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:30 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-11-26 11:49:27 EST
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Description Felix Lee 2000-11-26 11:49:25 EST

$ 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 10:39:45 EST

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 2001-01-12 20:46:38 EST

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.

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