> Upon performing the word count sort utilities on one of our > test files, we have found that the utilities ignore any punctuation > marks (.,():"). We are running UNIX on Linux Mandrake 8.1. Is this > normal, or is there an acutal bug?
Sort should respect punctuation as long as you are not sorting in dictionary order using the -d option. But this sounds more like a common LANG locale problem. Check out following pointer and see if this might also be what you are seeing. http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/#Sort%20does%20not%20sorting%20in%20normal%20order! Hope that helps Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
