Re: ASCII sort

[Bob Proulx]

John J. Herda wrote:
> I have a problem with the "sort" utility.  I want a
> simple ASCII sort but I cannot seem to get it.  It is
> most frustrating.

All of your examples worked correctly for me.  The problem is most
likely something specific to your user environment.

> I have tried "set LC_ALL=C" and several others also but it seemed to
> have no effect.  What can I do?  Please, help me.  Sorting is
> useless.

I see by your examples that you are a csh user.  I suggest upgrading
to a more modern shell that is POSIX compliant.  I suggest bash but
any POSIX compliant shell would be an improvement.  Please consider
upgrading to bash.  I strongly recommend this.

In csh if you are using 'set' that will NOT export the variable.  In
csh you would need to use 'setenv'.

What does locale say?

  locale

Bob