Re: sort weirdness

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

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
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