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From: Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] sort strangeness
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:42:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6160b5459f94e766aae12107a459fc45@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac0a5820909270202jfeea78eo820b2d6483ee3391@mail.gmail.com>

I think you and Richard are right. Looking at the man page,
the behavior is not unexpected. I mis-read what my own
experiment did and thought sort -n actually sorted 2.1.4
and 2.1.1.  I guess it's more of a 4am-on-a-sleepless-night
problem than a sort problem.

Thanks.

Greg



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-27 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-27  7:54 Gregory Pavelcak
2009-09-27  9:02 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-09-27 13:42   ` Gregory Pavelcak [this message]
2009-09-27  9:10 ` Richard Miller

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