Re: "sort" cmd bug

[Eric Blake]

> I am running suse 10.1
> and the shell cmd "sort" does not work
> as advertised.

On the contrary, sort is behaving exactly as advertised.
You probably have different locales on the different systems
you are testing, and locales affect sort's behavior.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

Try LC_ALL=C sort to get the ASCII byte ordering you desire.

-- 
Eric Blake