Re: Sort: problem with option -f

2010-01-28 Thread Guido Milanese
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:24:15 +, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote: > However, "sort" is part of the standard Unix toolkit, so comp.unix.shell > is probably a good place to ask that question. If you want to discuss > things specific to the GNU implementation of sort, you can go to > gnu.utils.help. Tha

Re: Sort: problem with option -f

2010-01-28 Thread Guido Milanese
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:40:47 -0800, DennisW wrote: > This has little or nothing to do with Bash. Sorry. I assumed that this group was the place to discuss bash commands. Where can I ask, if this is not the correct group? I ask because I have another question concerning SORT. > Try this: > LANG

Sort: problem with option -f

2010-01-28 Thread Guido Milanese
I am facing a problem concerning SORT on a Linux Ubuntu 9.04 distribution. I noticed that the -f option seems not to work. This is an example: DOG CAT zebra dog ZEBRA mouse Running "sort" on the file I get: CAT dog DOG mouse zebra ZEBRA Running "sort -f " I get the same result. No problem of enco

Re: Sort: problem with option -f

2010-01-28 Thread Stephane CHAZELAS
2010-01-28, 18:05(+00), Guido Milanese: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:40:47 -0800, DennisW wrote: > >> This has little or nothing to do with Bash. > Sorry. I assumed that this group was the place to discuss bash commands. > Where can I ask, if this is not the correct group? I ask because I have > an

Re: Sort: problem with option -f

2010-01-28 Thread Stephane CHAZELAS
2010-01-28, 09:40(-08), DennisW: > On Jan 28, 8:43 am, Guido Milanese wrote: >> I am facing a problem concerning SORT on a Linux Ubuntu 9.04 >> distribution. >> I noticed that the -f option seems not to work. This is an example: >> DOG >> CAT >> zebra >> dog >> ZEBRA >> mouse >> >> Running "sort"

Re: Sort: problem with option -f

2010-01-28 Thread DennisW
On Jan 28, 8:43 am, Guido Milanese wrote: > I am facing a problem concerning SORT on a Linux Ubuntu 9.04 > distribution. > I noticed that the -f option seems not to work. This is an example: > DOG > CAT > zebra > dog > ZEBRA > mouse > > Running "sort" on the file I get: > CAT > dog > DOG > mouse >