On 08/05/2014 11:19 AM, Chema Gonzalez wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 08/05/2014 11:12 AM, Chema Gonzalez wrote:
>>>> Setting LC_ALL= to the empty string risks implementation-defined
>>>> behavior. Also, LC_ALL overrides LANG and LC_COLLATE. It should be
>>>> sufficient to merely do:
>>>>
>>>> }}' $temp | LC_ALL=C sort -k 1,1 | tee $temp2 | awk '{
>>>
>>> Maybe:
>>> }}' $temp | LC_ALL=C LANG=C sort -k 1,1 | tee $temp2 | awk '{
>>
>> No need to specify LANG=C when LC_ALL is set. I stand by my shorter line.
> I'd prefer to see if any FreeBSD user can confirm whether LC_ALL
> overrides LANG (as in Linux) or the other way around. The docs seems
> to suggest to use LANG instead of LC_ALL there.
Bug in the docs, then, as POSIX is quite clear that LC_ALL overrides
LC_* overrides LANG. If FreeBSD ever got it backwards, even
temporarily, from what POSIX requires, it would be a lot more obvious.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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