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Re: 'sort' seems to ignore case without any command line switches
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: 'sort' seems to ignore case without any command line switches |
Date: |
23 Jun 2001 12:58:15 +0200 |
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Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
| Hello !
|
| I am using this version of 'sort' shipped with RedHat Linux 7.1:
|
| "
| [15] 17:06 address@hidden:/home/sergei> which sort
| /bin/sort
| [16] 17:06 address@hidden:/home/sergei> /bin/sort --version
| sort (GNU textutils) 2.0.11
Thanks for the report.
This is a common misunderstanding about how sort should work.
Here's the canned reply:
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You are using the version of sort that comes with textutils-2.0
or newer and have reported a problem whereby it is sorting in
some non-ASCII order.
That is due not to a bug in sort, but to the fact that you have
set environment variables that direct sort to use improper locale-
specific tables (you or your vendor have probably set environment
variables like LANG, LC_ALL, or LANGUAGE to en_US).
Unset them, and then set LC_ALL to POSIX
# If you use bash or some other Bourne-based shell,
export LC_ALL=POSIX
# If you use a C-shell,
setenv LC_ALL POSIX
and sort will then work the way you expect.
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BTW, in recent textutils test releases, sort --help output
includes this:
*** WARNING ***
This version of sort honors the locale settings in your environment.
For example, if you set one of the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables
to `en_US', then sort will work very differently than most people expect.
If that's not what you want, then set LC_ALL to POSIX in your environment.