On 12/28/2005 12:27 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

sort -b not only ignores blanks, but also tabs.

A tab is a blank.

Perhaps it would be more clear to say "whitespace" instead. Or are there
types of whitespace other than 'spaces, tabs and newlines', which do not
get ignored?

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