Re: Localization based problem with sort

[Dirk Stoecker]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, James Youngman wrote:

> > So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which allow no 
> > environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it.
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> cat > $HOME/bin/sort <<EOF
> #! /bin/sh
> LC_ALL=C
> export LC_ALL
> exec /usr/bin/sort "$@"
> EOF
> chmod 555 $HOME/bin/sort
> PATH="$HOME"/bin:"$PATH"

You hopefully agree, that creating a new sort-command (which BTW can't be 
named sort, as this means user-global settings and not per-call settings) 
is rather strange?

Ciao
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