sort with -k greater than number of keys
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I'm trying to understand an existing script used in our project with the sort command
sort -t= -nr -k3 nos
Where nos is a file with whitespace and numbers, for this example:
997 998 999 1000
The output is
999
998
997
1000
What I don't understand is why 1000 appears last. I suspect it is because of the argument -k3 when there is only key for each entry but I can't find anything in the documentation to say how it behaves when the specified key position doesn't exist.
Up until 4-digit numbers were included in the file this gave the expected result of sorting the numbers descending numerically.
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I'm trying to understand an existing script used in our project with the sort command
sort -t= -nr -k3 nos
Where nos is a file with whitespace and numbers, for this example:
997 998 999 1000
The output is
999
998
997
1000
What I don't understand is why 1000 appears last. I suspect it is because of the argument -k3 when there is only key for each entry but I can't find anything in the documentation to say how it behaves when the specified key position doesn't exist.
Up until 4-digit numbers were included in the file this gave the expected result of sorting the numbers descending numerically.
sort
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I'm trying to understand an existing script used in our project with the sort command
sort -t= -nr -k3 nos
Where nos is a file with whitespace and numbers, for this example:
997 998 999 1000
The output is
999
998
997
1000
What I don't understand is why 1000 appears last. I suspect it is because of the argument -k3 when there is only key for each entry but I can't find anything in the documentation to say how it behaves when the specified key position doesn't exist.
Up until 4-digit numbers were included in the file this gave the expected result of sorting the numbers descending numerically.
sort
asked 5 mins ago
Chris R
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I'm trying to understand an existing script used in our project with the sort command
sort -t= -nr -k3 nos
Where nos is a file with whitespace and numbers, for this example:
997 998 999 1000
The output is
999
998
997
1000
What I don't understand is why 1000 appears last. I suspect it is because of the argument -k3 when there is only key for each entry but I can't find anything in the documentation to say how it behaves when the specified key position doesn't exist.
Up until 4-digit numbers were included in the file this gave the expected result of sorting the numbers descending numerically.
sort
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