On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:14:09AM +0300, Oren Held wrote: > Hi, > > I've just encountered one of the strangest bugs I've seen in Linux.. > > Just like an amateur Operating System, one of the core unix tools - sort > - behaves different on different Linux (or more correct: sort) versions. > > When I try to sort the next input: > ab c > a c > > It makes sense that 'a c' would come before 'ab c', and this is how it > works with coreutils 5.0. But on an older version (I'm not sure that in > ALL the older versions - actually textutils 2.0.21 works well) the > results are vice versa.
Is it the different coreutils? I have coreutils 5.0 of current debian unstable. With LC_COLLATE set to "C" I get "a c" first. Without overriding LC_COLLATE I get "ab c" first. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
