Re: bug in sort 5.2.1

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 3/24/2006 8:50 AM:
> I have found what appears to be a bug in gnu sort 5.2.1, under Linux.

5.2.1 is old; consider upgrading to the latest stable version 5.94:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-02/msg00078.html

> The attached file is in UNIX format (no carriage returns).  It is -not-
> in sorted order.  Running 'sort sort.txt' produces output in the same
> order, ie unsorted.  If you have trouble reproducing this, please get
> back to me and I'll provide complete environmental information.  Thanks
> for your attention.

This is probably not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part.
You probably have your locale set to something that collates strings in a
manner that your provided input file is already sorted in that locale.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

Try 'LC_ALL=C sort sort.txt' to see the difference.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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