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Re: different behavior of sort
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Eric Blake |
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Re: different behavior of sort |
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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:52 -0700 |
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According to Sheila Yao on 1/18/2010 12:32 PM:
> At one box, I've sort version 5.2.1 and sort works correctly. At another box
> with sort 5.97, it doesn't work correctly.
Both of those are quite old. The latest stable version is 8.4.
> It works correctly for this output:
It probably works correctly for both outputs, with the difference boiling
down to a difference in your input - namely your locale environment
variables. This is a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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