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Re: Fancy Sort??


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Fancy Sort??
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:33:07 +0200
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Henrik Theiling <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I just noticed that my new Linux installation's `ls' command sorts in
> a very strange way obviously ignoring special characters or the like:
>
> E.g. it sorts like this:
>
>     tap
>     .tep
>     tup

Here's the form letter reply:
------------

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.
-----------

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.



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