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From: drb@petrus.UUCP (derrick burns)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: Sort feature ?
Message-ID: <247@petrus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 13:14:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  4 13:14:41 1986
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There appears to be a bug with sort in its treatment of field
delimiters.  For example:

	sort -t/ <<!
	abc/
	abc,/
	abc /
	!

Produces:

	abc /
	abc,/
	abc/

The reason is that sort considers the delimiter as a field terminator
and not as a field separator.  Does anyone have a fix for this
feature (bug)?  Also, does anyone have a copy of John Linderman's
sort which allows arbitrary length lines (up to the available memory)?