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Re: sort utility
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: sort utility |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:14:00 +0100 (BST) |
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, John J. Herda wrote:
>I am trying to get an ASCII sort and am having great troubles and
>frustration. It appears that there is no switch to force an ASCII
>sort, only for other kinds of sorts. It appears that environment
>variables: LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, and LANG all influence how
>sort works and that one interferes with another.
Please see the coreutils FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
In a nutshell, setting LC_COLLATE or LC_ALL should do the trick.
Cheers,
Phil