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bug#14318: sort: unexpected results
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#14318: sort: unexpected results |
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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:40:14 +0100 |
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On 04/30/2013 02:37 AM, Kenneth Dickman wrote:
> Why does putting "depot" in the input file, corrupt the sort function? How
> can I get sort to operate properly?
>
> $ cat good
> bin/... //b/bin/...
> logs/... //logs/...
> ... //b/...
> $ sort good
> ... //b/...
> bin/... //b/bin/...
> logs/... //logs/...
> $ cat bad
> bin/... //depot/b/bin/...
> logs/... //depot/logs/...
> ... //depot/b/...
> $ sort bad
> bin/... //depot/b/bin/...
> ... //depot/b/...
> logs/... //depot/logs/...
> $
>
> This occurs on RedHat:
This is because in your locale, punctuation is ignored in the presence
of other sort data. I.E. '.' and ' ' are not significant to the sort.
To turn off the locale specific sorting you need to use something like:
LC_ALL=C sort ...
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
thanks,
Pádraig.