Hello.. I'm currently studying using utilities and tools available at the terminal. I'm puzzled by sort's behavior. The manual says that it does not ignore trailing whitespace when sorting, you'd have to put the -b option. However with or without the -b option, it ignores whitespace...
$ cat > sample eggs ham bacon bread $ sort sample bacon bread eggs ham $ sort -b sample bacon bread eggs ham without -b should be: bread ham bacon eggs Secondly, the manual also says that sort puts capital letter before the small ones. The -f option should be used to "fold" the uppercase and lowercase together. As with above, with or without the option it does this: $ cat > sample Eggs bacon ham Bread $ sort sample bacon Bread Eggs ham $ sort -f sample bacon Bread Eggs ham without -f should be: Bread Eggs bacon ham Bugs or features, what am I missing here? _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
