Re: question about behavior of sort -n -t,

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/09/2013 12:34 AM, Gabriel Gaster wrote:
> PS. I just read a conversation linked on Pádraig's site as a 'TODO'.
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15157
> GNU bug report logs - #15157 join doesn't follow norms and dies instead of 
> doing something useful w/duplicate options
> 
> While I'm not sure, it seems that this might be a related conversation -- 
> regarding command-line specified arguments overriding environment settings. I 
> read pieces from that exchange but I couldn't determine if the todo is to 
> allow the command-like specified field-separator to override settings in LC_* 
> or not.

It is kind of related, well spotted.
Though that's specifically about how sort -t, -t: is handled.
I've responded separately in this thread as to why -t,
should probably not ingore ',' as a grouping character.

thanks,
Pádraig.