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Re: confusion with sort
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Mickey Ferguson |
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Re: confusion with sort |
Date: |
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:12:39 -0700 |
Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. I never noticed in the
documentation that it states:
"A pair of lines is compared as follows: sort compares each pair of fields,
in the order specified on the command line, according to the associated
ordering options, until a difference is found or no fields are left. If no
key fields are specified, sort uses a default key of the entire line.
Finally, as a last resort when all keys compare equal, sort compares entire
lines as if no ordering options other than --reverse (-r) were specified.
The --stable (-s) option disables this last-resort comparison so that lines
in which all fields compare equal are left in their original relative
order."
That last part that begins with Finally... is the part I missed.
"Kam-Hung Soh" <kamhung.soh@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Try adding the "-s" option, which "... disables this last-resort
> comparison so that lines in which all fields compare equal are left in
> their original relative order."