"Tom Szczesny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Please read section 22 in the coreutils FAQ. <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021> Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils