On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 14:12, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 11:22]: > > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: > > > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, > > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole > > > > > line of text, where " " collates before "0", etc. I've looked in the > > > > > man page, but see nothing. > > man sort > > The full documentation for sort is maintained as a Texinfo > manual. If the info and sort programs are properly > installed at your site, the command > > info sort > > Unless otherwise specified, all comparisons use the character > collating sequence specified by the `LC_COLLATE' locale. > > Therefore your current locale directly controls sort ordering. This > is a number one source of confusion for sort and ls and appears in the > GNU coreutils faq. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/ > > > works for me: > > Me too. > > > doozer:/tmp% locale > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > Veneet poses a good point. What is your locale? > > Try setting your locale to posix and see if that works for you. > > LC_ALL=POSIX sort < infile > outfile
Ah ha! That worked... Setting it to C also worked. $ locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL= I'm sure I'll be back, if I can't figure out how to permanently change the locale. Thanks, Ron -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
