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Re: strange 'sort' behaviour


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: strange 'sort' behaviour
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:55:17 -0700
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According to Eric Stockman on 1/8/2008 9:01 AM:
|     i have appended here  (shorted) files made by method 2  as explained in
| package.doc
|     ubuntu.apps contains a portion of the merged file and ubuntu.sort is the
| result of the sort .

Most likely, you are running into locale differences, and not a bug in
sort.  Try this FAQ:

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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