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Article #572Sort feature ?
From: derrick burns
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1986 17:14
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1986 17:14
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There appears to be a bug with sort in its treatment of field delimiters. For example: sort -t/ <<! abc/ abc,/ abc / ! Produces: abc / abc,/ abc/ The reason is that sort considers the delimiter as a field terminator and not as a field separator. Does anyone have a fix for this feature (bug)? Also, does anyone have a copy of John Linderman's sort which allows arbitrary length lines (up to the available memory)?
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!harvard!panda!genrad!decvax!bellcore!petrus!drb From: drb@petrus.UUCP (derrick burns) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Sort feature ? Message-ID: <247@petrus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 13:14:41 EDT Article-I.D.: petrus.247 Posted: Mon Aug 4 13:14:41 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Aug-86 01:59:51 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 19