Re: Bug in sort?

[Andreas Schwab]

Bernd Klein <address@hidden> writes:

> which is what I expect to happen, but if I use "sort -g +1 -2 example.txt"
> (-g according to man page: compare according to general numerical value)
> I get the confusing result:
> blabla 0.5 abcd
> xyz2 0.4 df
> xyz3 0.1 xyz5
> xyz4 0.002 bal
> xyz5 0.1 xyz2
> bal 1 trt
> xyz 1 ggg
> xya 3 trt
> sdf 4 trc

You are probably using a locale that uses a comma as the decimal sign.
Thus the sort key for all lines where the number starts with "0." is 0,
while preserving the relative order of each of them.

Andreas.

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