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RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
- From: <jyates at netezza dot com>
- To: <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0400
- Subject: RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
Andrew Cagney wrote:
...
> cagney@nettle$ sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n x
...
> I'm not sure I understand the problem, dot is a field separator rather
> than decimal place.
That would be fine if commonplace sorts obeyed that logic.
The most common sort in my world is /bin/ls which fails to
conform. Any scheme is which lexical sorting produced a
correct result would be preferable.
/john