From 224a69b56b716f57e3a018af5a9b9379f32da3fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:37:18 +0000 Subject: 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. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 82ded9d1c..05d22cbfb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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] -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2