Re: sort peculiarity

[Philip Rowlands]

[ - original poster ]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

> This is most likely not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part
> as to how locales affect sort.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

Proposal: add a --verbose option to sort, which would explain field 
splitting and comparison. I know I'd find this useful from time-to-time, 
even though I (mostly) remember to use -k2,2 !


Cheers,
Phil