The sort command does not work as described on page 19 of "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. sort without any options applied to the poem (as in sort poem) produces the same as sort -bf poem. I have not found a way to turn off the b and f options. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils