Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 23:07:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: rab@cdrom.com (Robert A. Bruce) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/sort is broken Message-ID: <199608202107.XAA18301@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608201629.JAA12110@wc.cdrom.com> from "Robert A. Bruce" at "Aug 20, 96 09:29:52 am"
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As Robert A. Bruce wrote: > Hi Jordan, > /usr/bin/sort is broken on mother. I renamed it to /usr/bin/sort.broken > and copied over a copy of sort from FreeBSD 2.1, which seems to work fine. > I figured I should let you know, so we don't send out FreeBSD 2.2 with > a broken utility. > > Here is an example: > > /usr/bin/sort.broken +0.5 -0.12 << EOF > 5 1401 > 30 30311 > 150 721 > 187 1241 > 215 606 > EOF Please, submit a PR for it (simply call ``send-pr''), so it won't get lost. It would be good if you could also try the same with the Posix options to specify the sorting fields, as opposed to your usage of what Posix calls ``obsolescent'' options (-k vs. +/-). Just mention the results of both tests in the PR. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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