>Number:         22182
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sort(1) fields options give incorrect results: -rn -k1 <> -k 1rn
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 18 16:52:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Nicolas Joly
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6U (Thu Jul 17 14:25:58 CEST 2003)
>Organization:
	Pasteur Institute, Paris.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD calamity.sis.pasteur.fr 1.6U NetBSD 1.6U (CALAMITY) #7: Wed Jul 9 23:44:31 CEST 2003 njoly@calamity.sis.pasteur.fr:/local/src/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CALAMITY i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	Using fields options may leads to incorrect results on sorting numbers
	By example (see below), sort -rn -k 1 and sort -k 1rn give different
	results.
>How-To-Repeat:
njoly@hal [~]> cat > xx 
1599
1501
1500
1499
1401
1400
njoly@hal [~]> sort -rn -k 1 xx
1599
1501
1500
1499
1401
1400
njoly@hal [~]> sort -k 1rn xx  
1500
1599
1501
1400
1499
1401
>Fix:
	N/A
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: