On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:39:45PM -0800, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > It was sorted this way before, but anytime someone sorts it in their > editor, it always has some difference (basically: line length > differences and case-insensitivity). > > sort(1) is case sensitive by default which has the minor advantage of > placing the capitalized files (README, Makefile, etc.) first in the > listing.
You also need to set LC_COLLATE=C, as developers may have a LANG setting that alters the collating sequence. I'd suspect any sort differences are more likely due to that than to what editor is being used to invoke sort. Nick
