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Re: sort and LC_COLLATE: suggestions for improvement (with patch)
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Philip Rowlands |
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Re: sort and LC_COLLATE: suggestions for improvement (with patch) |
Date: |
Fri, 18 May 2007 20:16:56 +0100 (BST) |
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jean-Pierre Vial wrote:
When one wants to sort a file in which letters are just codes, not
meaningfull words, the sort order obtained through LC_COLLATE is very
often inadequate. The help suggest to set LC_ALL="C", but this is
often inadequate as well in complcated shell scripts.
Inadequate in what sense? The script could be phrased something like
this:
LC_COLLATE=C sort -k2,2 ...
which avoids having to set then reset any LC_ environment variables.
Cheers,
Phil