Re: Possible bug in sort -V

[Steve Ward]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 20:18, john blair <address@hidden>wrote:

> cat a | /build/toolchain/lin32/coreutils-8.2/bin/sort -V
> kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm
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> The result should be
> kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
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> Is it a bug is sort -V?
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What version of sort are you using?
(sort --version)

What is your locale setting?

In ASCII, decimal digits are before alphabetical letters.  Why did you
expect the 'e' to come before '2' and '6'?



Steve

P.S.
You don't need to cat a file and pipe the output to sort.  Sort can open
files as input.