AW: sort works wrong after 117452 entries

[Kreuzer IT Support]

switching the columns and sorting for field +0 helped. 
so many thanks! 

i used ; for a later use of cut - missed to tell sort that key (don't know
if thats possible). 
thanks a lot, 
niko

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Von: Andreas Schwab [mailto:address@hidden 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Jänner 2007 15:40
An: Kreuzer IT Support
Cc: address@hidden
Betreff: Re: sort works wrong after 117452 entries

"Kreuzer IT Support" <address@hidden> writes:

> As you will notice, the sort for column +1 does it's job only until 
> line 117452.

Which is the last line where the file name contains no space.  The sort keys
are obtained by splitting the line on whitespace by default.

> Afterwards, the files are assorted. 

The lines are still correctly sorted on the sort key, it's just not the key
you expect.  Better put the sort key in the first field, or split the line
on the semicolon.  That makes it unabiguous.

Andreas.

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