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From: Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:42:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sort strangeness
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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