> > Hi, > > Sort seems to ignore (incorrectly handle) the character '.' in the > strings. The following output is what I get with: > > $ sort --version > sort (coreutils) 4.5.3 > Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
This version is quite old. The current stable version is 5.93, see the announcement at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00058.html > > I would expect all of the 'qbits.*' to be either before or after > all of the 'qbits2.*' in the above output. Thanks for the report. However, it is most likely that this is not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part. Read up on this FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Then inspect the output of the locale command, and try rerunning sort with LC_ALL=C in your environment. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils