On 04/22/2010 03:34 PM, Vito Di Blas wrote: > and I obtain the file bbb.txt > > Cari figli, domani > Cari figli, ieri > Cari figli, oggi > Cari figlioli > Cari figliozzi > Cari figli, pregate > Cari figlipucci > > > which doesn't look sorted according to my expectation.
Not a bug, if you are in a locale where the collating order discards punctuation and whitespace as insignificant. > Then, in WindowsXP, I sort again the file aaa.txt with the command: > > <...> sort aaa.txt > ccc.txt > > and I get the file ccc.txt : > > Cari figli, domani > Cari figli, ieri > Cari figli, oggi > Cari figli, pregate > Cari figlioli > Cari figliozzi > Cari figlipucci This is due to a difference in the default locales of your two systems. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Try again with 'LC_ALL=C sort aaa.txt' to see the difference. Personally, I have 'export LC_COLLATE=C' in my ~/.bashrc in order to guarantee traditional sorting, while everything else continues to follow my default locale. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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