Wilber Washbucket wrote: > I noticed that ls was failing to sort alphabetically so I grabbed > the latest version of coreutils and compiled it to test it, which > failed as well:
Thank you for your report. However your report matches a very common signature that is not a bug in coreutils but is instead simply a misunderstanding of locale. Check your locale setting. The 'locale' command may be used conveniently to print out the current settings. locale You are probably using a locale in which the character collating sequence is a "dictionary" sort ordering. (For example all of the en_* (english) locales sort by ignoring punctuation and folding case.) Try setting the high priority locale override to select the POSIX C locale for everything. export LC_ALL=C See this reference for more details. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ Look for "Sort does not sort in normal order!" Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
