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Hello,
On 2019-05-05 1:01 p.m., Toralf Förster wrote:
I'd expect "B" being the first line here:
echo a B c d | xargs -n 1 | sort
using sys-apps/coreutils-8.30 at a stable hardened Gentoo Linux, but it is "a".
Is this a bug or a feature?
This is just a matter of your locale (e.g. "de_DE.UTF8" ?)
that sorts letters without regard to case.
If you force C locale you'll get "B" first:
$ echo a B c d | xargs -n 1 | LC_ALL=C sort
B
a
c
d
Adding "--debug" will show a warning and help diagnose such issues in
the future:
$ sort --debug
sort: using ‘ca_EN.utf8’ sorting rules
...
...
As such, I'm closing this as not-a-bug, but discussion can continue by
replying to this thread.
-assaf
