sudhakara.madduk...@consult.nordea.com wrote: > Sort -A [Filename] is not working.
GNU sort does not have a -A option. $ sort -A sort: invalid option -- 'A' Try `sort --help' for more information. Are you sure you are using GNU sort? I suspect you are using a different sort. Probably a vendor sort. Ask it for the version. $ sort --version sort (GNU coreutils) 8.13 > How to handle Sorts on a byte-by-byte basis using ASCII collation > order instead of collation in the current locale using sort command > Please help me Set the LC_ALL=C variable for sort. Or at least LC_COLLATE=C. If you are using a /bin/sh or derivative then you can do this on the command line for sort by placing the variable setting before the command. LC_ALL=C sort If you are using one of the csh derived shells then you can use the "env" program as a helper. Some people document env only since it will always work correctly regardless of shell or function or aliases. env LC_ALL=C sort In my ~/.profile I set the following. It sets the LANG to UTF-8 so that I get unicode characters but overrides the collation sequence to be C so that I always get byte comparisons for a traditional Unix sort order. This works for en_US.UTF-8 and for most other western languages. But I have no idea how it would interact with chinese big5 for example. It may be a good compromise for you as well. export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_COLLATE=C There is an FAQ with more information here: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 > Note: Its working in IBM AIX It is likely that your AIX locale is already set to C (or POSIX, an alias for C). Bob
