>Number:         24316
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sort -k fails to sort properly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 04 18:35:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     MLH
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6ZI
>Organization:
none
	
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD tiamat.goathill.org 1.6ZI NetBSD 1.6ZI (APMVIA) #0: Fri Jan 30 13:13:58 CST 2004 mlh@enki.goathill.org:/opt/obj/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/APMVIA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Numeric field sorts are not sorted correctly by /usr/bin/sort.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
sort-bug-test-file:
 1.000 1.000
       1.000
 1.000 1.000
       1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000
 1.000 1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000

$ /usr/bin/sort -t: -k1.7,1.12n -k1.1,1.6n sort-bug-test-file
       1.000
       1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
$ /usr/bin/sort -t: -k1.7,1.12nr -k1.1,1.6nr sort-bug-test-file
       1.000
       1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000

$ /usr/bin/sort -t: -k1.7,1.12 -k1.1,1.6 sort-bug-test-file
       1.000
       1.000
       1.000
       1.000
 0.000 1.000
 0.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
$ /usr/bin/sort -t: -k1.7,1.12r -k1.1,1.6r sort-bug-test-file
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
 1.000 1.000
 0.000 1.000
 0.000 1.000
       1.000
       1.000
       1.000
       1.000
>Fix:
	
>Release-Note:
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