John Mocenigo wrote: > The dictionary order option does not sort in dictionary order:
Thank you for your report. It is most appreciated. However it matches a very common problem signature which is not usually a bug in sort. > $ echo 'aB\nab\nAb' | sort -d -f > ab > aB > Ab > > It should be: > > Ab > aB > ab This works for me using the C (aka POSIX) locale. What locale are you using? I am going to guess that is the problem. locale Try this: unset LANG export LC_ALL=POSIX Then try your test again. See your system and other standards documentation for how it reacts in the presence of locales. http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/sort.html > $ sort --version > sort (textutils) 2.0.21 If this problem persists beyond the locale then please consider upgrading to a newer version. That one is quite old. In fact please upgrade regardless. GNU coreutils is the replacement for textutils. STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) (unstable latest, but likely good candidates) http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.1.0.tar.gz http://fetish.sf.net/coreutils-5.1.0.tar.bz2 Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
