Thanks a lot Matthew, LC_ALL was not set on my computer, I set it to 'c', and now it is working.
BR, -- Mehran -----Original Message----- From: ext Matthew Woehlke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:41 PM To: Shokouhi Mehran (Nokia-NET/Tehran) Subject: RE: Sort ...and telling *me* is not nearly as helpful as telling the list. It WFM over here. Did you check your locale settings like I suggested? -- Matthew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 09:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sort Hi, My file (x) contains: 104 4 10 5 I run cat x | sort I expect to get (' ' < '4') 10 5 104 4 But I get 104 4 10 5 Please note that I want to sort them alphabetically, not numerically. I tried 'sort -k1,1' and it worked. BR, -- Mehran -----Original Message----- From: ext Matthew Woehlke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:36 AM Cc: Shokouhi Mehran (Nokia-NET/Tehran) Subject: Re: Sort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to sort a small file containing the following 2 rows using > "cat x | sort" > > 104 4 > 10 5 > > But it doesn't work. That's not a very helpful bug report. What do you get? What did you expect to get? And did you check your locale settings? ('man sort' talks about this...) -- Matthew "Do you do windows as well?" "Only when I'm forced to deal with Microsoft..." -- from a story by Feech _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
