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Re: sort peculiarity
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
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Re: sort peculiarity |
Date: |
Thu, 31 May 2007 19:21:02 +0100 (BST) |
[ - original poster ]
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
This is most likely not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part
as to how locales affect sort.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
Proposal: add a --verbose option to sort, which would explain field
splitting and comparison. I know I'd find this useful from time-to-time,
even though I (mostly) remember to use -k2,2 !
Cheers,
Phil