Don't you mean "LEADING" whitespace? Not nitpicking, but this is a technical discussion group so we must be accurate. I insist because before I read the man page for sort, I experimented on TRAILING whitespace and got correct results. Then when I've already composed my initial draft of this message, I found out from the man page that the -b switch is for ignoring LEADING whitespace... :-)
Anyway, I tried it on my RH 7.3 and got the same incorrect results. :-( Ludwig is right about the locale... it fixes the "weird behavior". Agi Rivera wrote: > 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 > _________________________________________________ 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
