On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, John J. Herda wrote: >I am trying to get an ASCII sort and am having great troubles and >frustration. It appears that there is no switch to force an ASCII >sort, only for other kinds of sorts. It appears that environment >variables: LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, and LANG all influence how >sort works and that one interferes with another.
Please see the coreutils FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 In a nutshell, setting LC_COLLATE or LC_ALL should do the trick. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
