Sorry for bugging, I think this can be closed. I found that I need to set LC_COLLATE=C in the environment to get the desired sort order. The man page has a small hint regarding the default order depending on the locale setting, which I did not interpret correctly. I was not suspecting that the regular US locale setting would give a different sort order than the "C" setting.
locale> LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL= -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683662 Title: sort has wrong order i.e. defaults to -f option -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
