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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-02-24 08:37:18 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-02-26 14:40:28 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-224a69b56b716f57e3a018af5a9b9379f32da3fc.tar.xz
sort: Fix two bugs with determining the end of field
* src/sort.c: When no specific number of chars to skip is specified for the end field, always skip the whole field. Also never include leading spaces from next field. * tests/misc/sort: Add 2 new tests for these cases. * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. * THANKS: Add bug reporter. Reported by Davide Canova.
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@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Bug fixes
+
+ sort now handles specified key ends correctly.
+ Previously -k1,1b would have caused leading space from field 2 to be
+ included in the sort while -k2,3.0 would have not included field 3.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 7.1 (2009-02-21) [stable]