Your question is essentially about the collation ordering of : and ,. This depends on your locale settings, which I would expect you have set up differently on the two systems.
Your problem is addressed in the coreutils FAQ. You can find that as the #1 result with a web search; http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
