-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Tanguy Urvoy on 10/10/2006 6:19 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] data]$ cat > sort.buggy > zogzog tralala > zogzogzog zogzog > zogzog zulu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] data]$ sort -k1 sort.buggy > zogzog tralala > zogzogzog zogzog > zogzog zulu
Probably not a bug in sort, but a gap in your understanding. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Try 'LC_ALL=C sort -k1 sort.buggy' for the behavior you seem to be wanting. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] data]$ sort --version > sort (GNU coreutils) 5.96 For what it's worth, the latest stable version is now at 6.3. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFK5Yk84KuGfSFAYARAkufAKCWR6cJGHRbqt2QNW1eaycEAcWblQCfSaU3 TO/b6Xvjl4gFa+ntv/tOXmg= =b5yj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
