On 4/27/21 7:39 PM, Peter SMITH1 (contractor) via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > CONFIDENTIAL & RESTRICTED
This cannot be enforced on a public mailing list, for obvious reasons. > Hello, > > C:\gener\gnuutils>\bin\sort --version > sort (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 > Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. > > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is a report with a 16-year-old version of the tool. Not sure if the issue - if any - still exists in the current version (8.32) Furthermore, you are using a Windows binary - usually one would try to seek help at the creator of that, i.e., the distributor, first. > C:\gener\gnuutils>type test.dat > bbbb > aaaa > ZZZZ > BBBB > > C:\gener\gnuutils>set LC_ALL=C > > C:\gener\gnuutils>\bin\sort test.dat > aaaa > bbbb > BBBB > ZZZZ > > C:\gener\gnuutils> It seems that the locale information available to sort differs from that of a current system: $ env LC_ALL=C sort test.dat BBBB ZZZZ aaaa bbbb or that your version of sort enables case-folding (-f): $ LC_ALL=C sort -f test.dat aaaa BBBB bbbb ZZZZ As the version you are using is that old, and the environment is quite different, I'm afraid we cannot help much here. First, I'd try to get a newer build and see if the problem still exists. Have a nice day, Berny
