On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, O. O. <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is this different from the first case. I only expected x and y by > the above mentioned values, and it does not seem to sort. > > I would be grateful if someone could help me sort this.
You're running into a locale issue. $ sort try_sort1.txt a 0-1 b c a 0:1 b c a 0-1 d e $ LC_COLLATE=C sort try_sort1.txt a 0-1 b c a 0-1 d e a 0:1 b c $ LC_ALL=C sort try_sort1.txt a 0-1 b c a 0-1 d e a 0:1 b c For details, 'man sort'[1] and see the warning about locale. [1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/sort Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
