Hi Bijan, I fell across a similar situation a while ago - but apparently this is the way that the specification is written; see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal- order_0021 and: http://old.nabble.com/sort---seems-deficient-td19360749.html So as for the sort order, I think the order is dictated by the locale; and I suspect the problem is that in your case the '.' isn't being treated as ordered with respect to anything else. Now as for how long it takes, I think there are two issues; I can see it's much harder to do a sort when you have to take into account all these locale issues, and given your data perhaps it needs a lot more rearrangement to meet those rules. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846628 Title: gnu sort extremely slow in non C locale To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/846628/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
