Re: Bugreport 'sort'

[Eric Blake]

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According to Heijnen on 3/4/2008 5:18 AM:
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| I would assume the lines with ">" and "<" would be grouped together, but
I still get:
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| Apparently the comparing ">" and "<" doesn't work well (or do ">" and
"<" have special meaning?)

It is probably your locale that treats > and < as identical.  Read the
FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

and try running 'LC_ALL=C sort' to see the difference.

| sort (coreutils) 5.2.1

You may want to consider upgrading - that version is several years old;
the latest stable version is 6.10.

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