[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in Solaris, for example (and in perl, etc.)
ae
ac
a l
az
sorts to
a l
ac
ae
az
which is correct, since the space character is lexigraphically less than any
alphanumeric character
but gnu sort (linux) seems to ignore the blanks entirely, resulting in
ac
ae
a l
az
getting a different result is a real pain!
Is there any option that makes 'sort' behave as the man page claims it does?
From the man page:
> *** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort
> order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
> native byte values.
...did you try this?
--
Matthew
"What's Cygwin?" you ask.
'Tis mostly absurd software
Concerning hippos.
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