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Re: I think sort has a bug
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: I think sort has a bug |
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Wed, 21 May 2008 10:43:05 -0600 |
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Dai, Manhong wrote:
> I think I found a bug of sort. the command is
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> echo -e "a0 1\na 1\na1 1" | sort
> a0 1
> a 1
> a1 1
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> Is this wrong?
The result is dependent upon your configured locale. The above is
correct in a locale that ignores punctuation such as en_US. Please
see this reference for more information.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
Bob