Jeff Orrok wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# sort --version
> sort (textutils) 2.0.21
> Redhat Linux 7.3
Thanks for your report. But I can't recreate it with either sort 2.0
or the newer coreutils 5.0. Therefore I suspect this may have
something to do with LANG in your environment. (LANG is almost always
the problem with sort on RH and so I always suspect it.) What is your
locale setting? Does changing it to "C" or "POSIX" correct your
problem?
locale
export LC_ALL=C
> According to the man page, -d gives dictionary order,
Just because I looked I am going to share with the list. There have
been changes to the documentation of this at least.
The man page is generated from the 'sort --help' output so those will
always be the same. It says this with coreutils 5.0:
-d, --dictionary-order consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
It used to say this with textutils 2.0:
-d consider only [a-zA-Z0-9 ] characters in keys
The info page is the true source of documentation and with coreutils
5.0 it says:
`-d'
`--dictionary-order'
Sort in "phone directory" order: ignore all characters except
letters, digits and blanks when sorting. The `LC_CTYPE' locale
determines character types.
It used to say this with textutils 2.0:
`-d'
Sort in "phone directory" order: ignore all characters except
letters, digits and blanks when sorting.
The latest version of the coreutils package is here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2
(coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
Bob
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