On 21Nov2018 21:47, Amadeus W.M. <amadeu...@verizon.net> wrote:
I've been using sort for years and I just ran into something I've never seen and I can't explain.
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I see some weirdness too, but mine doesn't match yours. (Ubuntu 16.04 here, though.)
I note that sort(1) says: *** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values. So do some testing with: cat spam | LC_ALL=C sort -k1 -t"|" and report. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org