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Re: is it a bug?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: is it a bug? |
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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:58:08 -0700 |
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According to Igor Zakharoff on 3/1/2010 9:49 AM:
> $ echo -e "ru.unix /h\nru.unix.ftn /h\nru.unix.prog /h" | sort
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> I somehow get
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> ru.unix.ftn /h
> ru.unix /h
> ru.unix.prog /h
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> Is it a bug?
Nope. I reproduced your results with the en_US locale, but not with the C
locale. Remember that in some locales, like en_US, whitespace is ignored
as insignificant in collation.
Try '... | LC_ALL=C sort' to see the difference.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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