Re: sort weirdness

[Ron McDowell <rcm%fuzzwad.org@localhost>]

tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:26:29PM -0500, Ron McDowell wrote:
>   
>> [rcm@nbsd(NetBSD)]> uname -a
>> NetBSD nbsd.fuzzwad.net 5.1 NetBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Nov  6 13:19:33 
>> UTC 2010  
>> builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RELEASE/amd64/201011061943Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
>>  
>> amd64
>>
>> [rcm@nbsd(NetBSD)]> cat file # there is a single space between "words"
>> 192 168 10 4 blahh
>> 192 27 10 4 blahhh
>> 192 27 4 18 blah
>>
>>
>> [rcm@nbsd(NetBSD)]> sort -n -t' ' -k1,4 file
>>
>> 192 168 10 4 blahh
>> 192 27 10 4 blahhh
>> 192 27 4 18 blah
>>
>>     
>
> -k1,4 specifies 1 to 4 as _one_ field. You must use:
>
> sort -n -t' ' -k1 -k2 -k3 -k4 file
>
> HTH
>   

Thanks.  That does indeed do the trick.

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Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX