tag 14318 notabug stop On 04/30/2013 02:37 AM, Kenneth Dickman wrote: > Why does putting "depot" in the input file, corrupt the sort function? How > can I get sort to operate properly? > > $ cat good > bin/... //b/bin/... > logs/... //logs/... > ... //b/... > $ sort good > ... //b/... > bin/... //b/bin/... > logs/... //logs/... > $ cat bad > bin/... //depot/b/bin/... > logs/... //depot/logs/... > ... //depot/b/... > $ sort bad > bin/... //depot/b/bin/... > ... //depot/b/... > logs/... //depot/logs/... > $ > > This occurs on RedHat:
This is because in your locale, punctuation is ignored in the presence of other sort data. I.E. '.' and ' ' are not significant to the sort. To turn off the locale specific sorting you need to use something like: LC_ALL=C sort ... http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 thanks, Pádraig.
