[ILUG] another solaris sort request

[Pádraig Brady]

Maciej Bliziński wrote:
> Indeed, it looks like there's difference between Sun sort and GNU sort::
> 
> blizinski at cabbage ~ $ uname -a
> SunOS cabbage.dub.corp.google.com 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
> blizinski at cabbage ~ $ cat /etc/release
>                        Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b X86
>            Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>                             Assembled 27 October 2008
> blizinski at cabbage ~ $ printf "a 2\nb 1\n" | sort -n -k1.3,1.1
> a 2
> b 1
> blizinski at cabbage ~ $ printf "aa 2\nbb 1\n" | sort -n -k2.2,1.2
> aa 2
> bb 1
> blizinski at cabbage ~ $ printf "a 2\nb 1\n" | gsort -n -k1.3,1.1
> b 1
> a 2
> blizinski at cabbage ~ $ printf "aa 2\nbb 1\n" | gsort -n -k2.2,1.2
> bb 1
> aa 2
> 
> (I alias sort='gsort' for interactive sessions on Solaris.)

Yep. confirms another GNU sort bug.

cheers,
Pádraig.