[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#7323: closed (sort bug)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: sort bug Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:52:25 -0500
I have found an anomaly in the sort utility.

Given the input:

1|1|1||Terry|a|Willis|||19610203|||||| 315 | E | Sutton | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
2|1|1||Terry| |Willis|||19610204|||||| 315 | E | Sutton | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR|72701 | ||| |||||TEST|| 
3|1|1||Andy||smith   |||19610203|||||| 315 | | Willow | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701| ||| |||||TEST||
4|1|1||Andy||smith   |||19610302|||||| 315 | | Willow | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
5|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19610203|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
6|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19660203|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
7|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19610202|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
8|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19615292|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
9|1|1||Terry|a|Willis|||1961020|||||| 315 | E | Sutton | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
10|1|1||Robert|W|Travillian|||19610222|||||| 249 ||Murdoch|Street||||||51035| ||| |||||TEST||
11|1|1||Robert|W|Travillian|||19610222|||||||||||||||| ||| |||||TEST||

If I sort on the 10th pipe delimited field using the command:

sort -t\| -k 10  source.dat

I get the following result:

7|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19610202|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
5|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19610203|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
9|1|1||Terry|a|Willis|||1961020|||||| 315 | E | Sutton | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
1|1|1||Terry|a|Willis|||19610203|||||| 315 | E | Sutton | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
3|1|1||Andy||smith   |||19610203|||||| 315 | | Willow | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701| ||| |||||TEST||
2|1|1||Terry| |Willis|||19610204|||||| 315 | E | Sutton | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR|72701 | ||| |||||TEST|| 
10|1|1||Robert|W|Travillian|||19610222|||||| 249 ||Murdoch|Street||||||51035| ||| |||||TEST||
11|1|1||Robert|W|Travillian|||19610222|||||||||||||||| ||| |||||TEST||
4|1|1||Andy||smith   |||19610302|||||| 315 | | Willow | Street | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
8|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19615292|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||
6|1|1||MARY||JONES   |||19660203|||||| 1400 |N | eastwood | drive | || |Fayetteville|AR| 72701 | ||| |||||TEST||

Note in particular the location of record 9.

This occurs in Centos4 and Ubuntu 9.04 and RHEL5.5

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> On 03/11/10 14:52, Thomas A Schweiger wrote:
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> > I have found an anomaly in the sort utility.
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> > If I sort on the 10th pipe delimited field using the command:
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> > sort -t\| -k 10  source.dat
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> That sorts from the 10th field on.
> If you just want the 10th field then use -k10,10
> If the field is numeric (and not fixed width) use -k10,10n
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> cheers,
> Pádraig.
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