On Jan 28, 8:43 am, Guido Milanese <guido.milan...@unicatt.it> wrote: > I am facing a problem concerning SORT on a Linux Ubuntu 9.04 > distribution. > I noticed that the -f option seems not to work. This is an example: > DOG > CAT > zebra > dog > ZEBRA > mouse > > Running "sort" on the file I get: > CAT > dog > DOG > mouse > zebra > ZEBRA > > Running "sort -f " I get the same result. No problem of encoding, being > plane letters <127 -- to be sure I saved the list as 'test', and "file > test" says it's a pure ASCII text. Without the '-f' option, 'sort' used to > distinguish among lowercase / uppercase. > Is this a bug or a new behaviour of 'sort' ? > > Thanks! > guido > guido.milan...@unicatt.itwww.arsantiqua.org
This has little or nothing to do with Bash. Try this: LANG=C sort
