On 07/01/2011 12:00 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > I'm getting results that I don't expect and different from busybox > sort? > > The file contains partition infomation > [======DISK======] [=============NAME==============] > [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN] > [sda ] [Hitachi HDP72505 ] [ 465.76 GB] [ 8] [ > 0] > > [=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [======LABEL======] > [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN] > [sda1 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 200.00 MB] [ 8] [ > 1] > [sda2 ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown> ] [ 31.18 GB] [ > 8] [ 2] > [sda3 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 434.38 GB] [ 8] [ 3] > [dm-0 ] [ext4 ] [<unknown> ] [ 25.87 GB] [253] [ > 0] > [dm-1 ] [swap ] [<unknown> ] [ 5.31 GB] [253] [ > 1] > > When I use the Fedora 14 sort I get this. > > [=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [======LABEL======] > [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN] > [======DISK======] [=============NAME==============] > [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN] > [dm-0 ] [ext4 ] [<unknown> ] [ 25.87 GB] [253] [ > 0] > [dm-1 ] [swap ] [<unknown> ] [ 5.31 GB] [253] [ > 1] > [sda1 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 200.00 MB] [ 8] [ > 1] > [sda2 ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown> ] [ 31.18 GB] [ > 8] [ 2] > [sda3 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 434.38 GB] [ 8] [ 3] > [sda ] [Hitachi HDP72505 ] [ 465.76 GB] [ 8] [ > 0] > > Which is not what I expect with sda coming at the end instead of > before sda1, and there are just spaces between all the charcters, > no special codes. > > Using busybox sort results in this. > > [======DISK======] [=============NAME==============] > [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN] > [=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [======LABEL======] > [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN] > [dm-0 ] [ext4 ] [<unknown> ] [ 25.87 GB] [253] [ > 0] > [dm-1 ] [swap ] [<unknown> ] [ 5.31 GB] [253] [ > 1] > [sda ] [Hitachi HDP72505 ] [ 465.76 GB] [ 8] [ > 0] > [sda1 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 200.00 MB] [ 8] [ > 1] > [sda2 ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown> ] [ 31.18 GB] [ > 8] [ 2] > [sda3 ] [ext3 ] [<unknown> ] [ 434.38 GB] [ 8] [ 3] > > Which is what I expect? > If I create a file with just the disk and partition info, both sorts give > me the correct sorts. Even if I put spaces afterwards it sorts fine, > but if I put non-blanks it puts the sda at the end? > > Any ideals on why sort is acting this way? > > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor > Guam Community College Computer Center > mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.guam.net/home/mikes > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) > Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 > Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes > (Total Hours: 287,489) > > BOINC@HOME CREDITS > SETI 10944149.476033 | EINSTEIN 6108721.330851 > ROSETTA 3318509.748210 | ABC 6642219.200443 > Can you post your entire sort command with it's args in both cases? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines