Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please Sir,
>
> considering the followinf file "f" containing the following lines:
>
> a , 1
> a ; 2
> a , 3
>
>
> If i do: cat f | sort
>
> sort will give
>
> a , 1
> a ; 2
> a , 3
This is a frequently asked question.
Here's the explanation:
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You are using the version of sort that comes with textutils-2.0
or newer and have reported a problem whereby it is sorting in
some non-ASCII order.
That is due not to a bug in sort, but to the fact that you have
set environment variables that direct sort to use improper locale-
specific tables (you or your vendor have probably set environment
variables like LANG, LC_ALL, or LANGUAGE to en_US).
Unset them, and then set LC_ALL to POSIX
# If you use bash or some other Bourne-based shell,
export LC_ALL=POSIX
# If you use a C-shell,
setenv LC_ALL POSIX
and sort will then work the way you expect.
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BTW, in recent textutils test releases, sort --help output
includes this:
*** WARNING ***
This version of sort honors the locale settings in your environment.
For example, if you set one of the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables
to `en_US', then sort will work very differently than most people expect.
If that's not what you want, then set LC_ALL to POSIX in your environment.
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