James Youngman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
Also, just as you didn't know about the LC_COLLATE option, the
rest of the world will not know about the new options, either, so
these don't seem to present much of an advantage.
Well, options are usually d
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which
allow no environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it.
I would cheekily point out that the reason you see the unwelcome sort
order in the first place is caused by an envi
James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
>> So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which allow no
>> environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it.
>
> #! /bin/sh
> cat > $HOME/bin/sort < #! /bin/sh
Dirk Stoecker wrote:
> So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which allow no
> environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it.
You can use "env LC_COLLATE=C sort -opts" as the sort command. Or 'sh
-c "LC_COLLATE=C sort -opts"'.
Brian
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, James Youngman wrote:
> > So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which allow no
> > environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it.
>
> #! /bin/sh
> cat > $HOME/bin/sort < #! /bin/sh
> LC_ALL=C
> export LC_ALL
> exec /usr/bin/sort "$@"
> EOF
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
> So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which allow no
> environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it.
#! /bin/sh
cat > $HOME/bin/sort < Clean design is always good, but it should not reduce the u
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, James Youngman wrote:
> > b) Even advanced users do not know of LC_COLLATE. I myself use UNIX
> >operating systems for more than 10 years and it is the very first time
> >I get in contact with this special environment variable. It is very
> >unintuitive to set e
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
> b) Even advanced users do not know of LC_COLLATE. I myself use UNIX
>operating systems for more than 10 years and it is the very first time
>I get in contact with this special environment variable. It is very
>unintuit
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Dirk Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What about the following solution? It is not exactly implementing the
> > above options, but nevertheless fixes the problem directly:
>
> But isn't this equivalent to setting LC_COLLATE="C" and LC_TIME="C"
Dirk Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What about the following solution? It is not exactly implementing the
> above options, but nevertheless fixes the problem directly:
But isn't this equivalent to setting LC_COLLATE="C" and LC_TIME="C" in
the environment? Why bother to have two differen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > What would be the problem when there is an option "--no-dictionary-order"
> > and "--no-ignore-case"?
>
> The problem is implementing those options, not specifying them. I
> don't know how to implement them. If you could supply a patch to
> implement
Hello,
> > What would be the problem when there is an option "--no-dictionary-order"
> > and "--no-ignore-case"?
>
> The problem is implementing those options, not specifying them. I
> don't know how to implement them. If you could supply a patch to
> implement them, that would help.
I will h
Dirk Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What would be the problem when there is an option "--no-dictionary-order"
> and "--no-ignore-case"?
The problem is implementing those options, not specifying them. I
don't know how to implement them. If you could supply a patch to
implement them, tha
Hello,
> Dirk Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > when using the "sort" utility in German language the two options
> >
> > -d, --dictionary-order
> > -f, --ignore-case
> >
> > are activated by default. It is impossible to have other sorting methods
> > then.
> >
> > Would you
Dirk Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> when using the "sort" utility in German language the two options
>
> -d, --dictionary-order
> -f, --ignore-case
>
> are activated by default. It is impossible to have other sorting methods
> then.
>
> Would you please add negative forms of t
Hello,
when using the "sort" utility in German language the two options
-d, --dictionary-order
-f, --ignore-case
are activated by default. It is impossible to have other sorting methods
then.
Would you please add negative forms of these options, so they can be
deactivated in local
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