sort command

[Robert Lewis]

Folks:

Some of my shell scripts are now failing with SuSE 9.0.
Prior to 9.0 the sort command would put anything starting with
-Doug
at the top, the - (dash) being the item of interest.  This has worked
on Unix etc as well as Linux until now.q

Now the - is being ignored and the letters following the dash are used
for the sort.

Here is an example:

moose
ant
zebra
-gosh

prior to 9.0 sort would do:
-gosh
ant
moose
zebra

after 9.0, I get.
ant
-gosh
moose
zebra

SuSE 9.0 is using.   (However, 4.5.8 did not have this problem)
sort (coreutils) 5.0
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.

Cheers,
Bob
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