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Re: Does sort -2,3n work properly?
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Bartosz Gołaszewski |
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Re: Does sort -2,3n work properly? |
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Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:29:45 +0100 |
2014/1/17 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
> So these are warning messages indicating a usage issue.
> The specific one here is you've _spanned_ multiple fields
> but numeric compares auto terminate at the first numbers.
Thanks, that explains it!
> You probably want to compare multiple fields in sequence. I.E.
>
> sort -k2,2n -k3,3n
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
I was actually checking some busybox compatibility issues.
Best regards,
Bartosz Gołaszewski