"Macbeth, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > I am using RedHat 6.1 sort FSF version 2.0
| >
| > Try sorting these three lines: eg sort -b
| > A2 2
| > A1 2
| > A 2
| >
| > The order is: (WRONG!)
| > A1 2
| > A 1
| > A2 2
| >
| > The order should be: (as in RedHat 4.2 GNU textutils) 1.22
| > A 2
| > A1 2
| > A2 2
| >
| > Hmmm.
| >
| > Is there a bug fix? The original 4.2 sort seems to work OK on the 6.1
| > platform.
You are using the version of sort that comes with textutils-2.0
or newer and have reported a problem whereby it is sorting in
some non-ASCII order.
That is due not to a bug in sort, but to the fact that you have
set environment variables that direct sort to use improper locale-
specific tables (you or your vendor have probably set environment
variables like LC_ALL to en_US).
You should set LC_ALL to POSIX
# If you use bash or some other Bourne-based shell,
export LC_ALL=POSIX
# If you use a C-shell,
setenv LC_ALL POSIX
and then sort will work the way you expect.
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