sort -R not working

2009-08-27 Thread Barty Pleydell-Bouverie
Hi sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason for this?

Re: sort -R not working

2009-08-27 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Barty Pleydell-Bouverie wrote: sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason for this? Fedora 8 was declared end-of-life (i.e. unsupported) on January 7, 2009. Can you reproduce this problem either with a current Fedora release, or with

Re: sort -R not working

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Barty Pleydell-Bouverie wrote: sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason for this? Fedora 8 is rather old. I suggest you upgrade. Please show us what command you ran, and the inputs and outputs. And what sort --version prints.

Re: sort -R not working

2009-08-27 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Thursday 27 of August 2009 12:46:51 Barty Pleydell-Bouverie wrote: Hi sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason for this? Please define not working. What is the command you have used? What is the output? What is the expected output? Fedora 8 is EOL

Re: sort -R not working

2009-08-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
Barty Pleydell-Bouverie wrote: Hi sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason for this? I vaguely remember there being a bug where sort -R was not working on some locales, but the git history is not helping me out. Can you retry with `LANG=C sort -R`. I