RE: Reg. 'sort' problem in Mac OS X

2007-08-31 Thread Mallika Veeramalai
being. Thank you very much, mallika From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 8/30/2007 7:32 PM To: Mallika Veeramalai Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Reg. 'sort' problem in Mac OS X -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mallika Veeramalai on 8/30/2007 6

Reg. 'sort' problem in Mac OS X

2007-08-30 Thread Mallika Veeramalai
There is no '-g' option Mac OS X.10.4.10 -g, --general-numeric-sort compare according to general numerical value The correct answer should be and it is working fine in Mac OS X 10.4.2 and in Linux: 1.46e-13 H 1.53e-11 H 1.54e-03 H 1.46e-01 N I think this 'sort' problem exist in every where, even when

Re: Reg. 'sort' problem in Mac OS X

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Blake
between '-k1,1' and '-k1'. As typed in your example, the sort key is the entire line, rather than just the first field. I think this 'sort' problem exist in every where, even when we use the 'ls -trl' to list the file in a dir - mainly because many sort options not included in the Mac OS X

LINUX Sort Problem

2006-06-06 Thread Steve Chamberlin
Hello all, My name is Steve Chamberlin and I currently work for Qsent in Beaverton, OR. I have been using the sort utility version 5.2.1 in LINUX and seem to be having a problem with special characters. If a line contains these characters, essentially anything beyond numbers and letters, they

Re: LINUX Sort Problem

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Steve Chamberlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My preference for the sort is to default to the standard ASCII collating sequence On my host sort --help says: *** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native

sort problem

2005-04-23 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Hi, I have a program which runs on a sun ultrasparc and I want to port it to linux. The sun program uses sort (sort - GNU textutils 1.14). However I have a different version of sort on the linux machine (sort (coreutils) 5.2.1). My problem is that these different versions sort my text

Re: sort problem

2005-04-23 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Bastiaan Naber wrote: The sun program uses sort (sort - GNU textutils 1.14). However I have a different version of sort on the linux machine (sort (coreutils) 5.2.1). My problem is that these different versions sort my text differently. This is not really a problem however