Mitesh Singh Jat wrote: > Thanks! Bob. I have updated mine $HOME/.profile, and it is giving desired > results on sorting.
Oh good. > I have an another use case where 'sort' shows different sort order, > due to ignorance of punctuations. > ... > The above example shows that position of first character(alphabet) in > each line is considered for sorting. Again, that is using the en_US.UTF-8 collation sequence. If you want a different sorting order then you must ensure that LANG, LC_COLLATE or LC_ALL are set to the desired locale. As you noted below. > After exporting LANG and LC_COLLATE, > > $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LC_COLLATE=C > $ sort sort_bug2.txt > --wv > --ww > ./ h > ./ z > $ sort sort_bug3.txt > --aw > --ww > ./ h > ./ z > > This time sort is bringing similar values together. Right. Without one of LANG, LC_COLLATE or LC_ALL set to a "standard" locale sort order, or set to an language based sort order such as en_US.UTF-8, then it will ignore punctuation and fold casew. To consider punctuation set the appropriate variable to C and it will then consider case and punctuation as desired. > Thanks! Bob and Mike, I will always have the environment > variables set in my shell or shell script before running sort. Good deal. Glad to hear that "everything is sorted out" for you. Pun intended! :-) Bob
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