Re: sort -R not working

[Pádraig Brady]

Barty Pleydell-Bouverie wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> sort -R fails to randomly sort files. I am using fedora8 - any known reason 
> for this?

I vaguely remember there being a bug where sort -R was
not working on some locales, but the git history is not
helping me out. Can you retry with `LANG=C sort -R`.
I can't reproduce though:

$ sudo chroot /f8
# rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-6.9-12.fc8
# echo $LANG
en_IE.UTF-8
# seq 5 | sort -R
3
2
1
4
5

cheers,
Pádraig.