Bug 187083

Summary: [patch] sort(1) cannot be used for binary data.
Product: Base System Reporter: Shayan Pooya <shayan>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Open ---    
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Description Shayan Pooya 2014-02-26 14:40:01 UTC 
Sort has an unnecessary check that prevents it from being used for binary data:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/sort/sort.c#L1063


Here is the mailing list discussion (not very useful):
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Field-delimiter-in-sort-program-in-freebsd-td5879776.html

Fix: Just remove the bogus condition:

How-To-Repeat: $ sort -t $'\xff'

complains about the delimiter.
Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:18 UTC 
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Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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