On 1 Jul 2011 at 11:50, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Date sent: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:50:39 +0200 From: Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: problem wth sort utility? Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > On 07/01/2011 09:00 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > I'm getting results that I don't expect and different from busybox > > sort? > > The busybox sorting is more simple (and more correct, to your eyes). > > Try with: > > LC_COLLATE=C sort a >b > > or > > LC_ALL=C sort a >b > > to disable the linguistic "smart" sorting which tries to address > capital letters, spaces, accented letters and so on in ways which > are sometimes welcome and other times surprising. > > If you want the raw sorting (as by C language's strcmp()) you have > to use the LC_COLLATE=C or LC_ALL=C env var. Thanks. I looked thru the man sort, but didn't find a switch that I would expect to change this. The command I use that no works is fsarchiver probe 2>&1 | LC_ALL=C sort What makes this not the default? I do other filtering to extract subsets and reformat data so it works with a dialog radio button screen to select the info. > > -- > Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10944149.476033 | EINSTEIN 6108721.330851 ROSETTA 3318509.748210 | ABC 6642219.200443 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
