On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:31:47AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:20:47PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > >Using find -type f doesn't solve the problem. > > I didn't say it had anything to do with the problem, I just said that > running a process per entry is inefficient.
OK, calm down, please, there's no personal attack, we're just trying to track down a problem. > > >How is it that I get that sequence: . . / / . / . . / / / . ?? > > Because in a non-C/POSIX locale that's how sorting works. Case and > punctuation are ignored in a dictionary sort; the only time case and > puncuation matter is if you're doing a ascii sort. OK, I didn't know that. this ascii option isn't documented in the manpage. Maybe including it would be useful ? What option is it btw ? > > >>If I had to guess I'd say that someone restarted cron and their > >>environment is different than the system default one. (I.e., either > >>their LANG is unset or set to C, or their LC_COLLATE is set to C.) > > > >No, the crontab is launched by /etc/crontab and always under the same > >id, ie root: > > Did you read what I wrote? "I'd say that someone restarted cron". No one can restart cron (ie, /etc/init.d/cron) but root and I'm the only person to know root's password. > > >Given this and the example above, I'd say that the problem has nothing > >to do with locale > > The example above isn't a problem, and is exactly the expected output > when using a non-C locale. Using C locale, I get the same result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ LANG=C LC_ALL=C LC_COLLATE=C LOCALE=C find /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/r* -type f|sort /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay.applications /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay.desktop /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay/embedded_logo.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay/icon.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay.keys /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay/logo.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay.mime /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay/prefs_general.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay/setup_title.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay/setup_welcome.png /usr/local/RealPlayer/share/realplay.xml or do I miss something ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
