Re: sort on multicolumn files

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, P Kensche wrote:

> I use 4.5.3 from coreutils 5.93 and have a problem with sort.

This is a common issue, due to certain locale settings which influence 
sorting behaviour. Please see:

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

> Anyway - in this combination of outputs sort unusable in combination 
> with join (which is exactly what I tried to do).

Did you mean to sort on the whole line? "-k" requires two fields, and 
if only one is given, the default is to consider all subsequent fields.


Cheers,
Phil