Oshea, Richard wrote: > Not sure if this is a bug or a problem with the way my environment > it setup - or the way I'm using sort - But... Given the following > data in a file, the sort command does not produce the correct > output.
Are you passing any options to sort? > I have even tried setting the LC_ALL as suggested in the sort --help > (set LC_ALL=C) "set LC_ALL=C"? What shell are you using? Try this: env LC_ALL=C sort > AG 1 > AG2 3 > AG2 2 > AG3 4 > AG 4 > AG3 3 > AG4 5 > AG4 6 > > The results are > > AG 1 > AG2 2 > AG2 3 > AG3 3 > AG3 4 > AG 4 > AG4 5 > AG4 6 Check the whitespace characters. Are there non-printable characters there? > I would expect the output to be more like ... > > AG 1 > AG 4 > AG2 2 > AG2 3 > AG3 3 > AG3 4 > AG4 5 > AG4 6 That is the result I get on my machine when I test with your input. What version of sort are you using? What operating system are you working on? What locale are you using? sort --version uname -a locale Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
