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the sort thing again -- kind of
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David T-G |
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the sort thing again -- kind of |
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Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:56:54 -0500 |
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Hello, all --
I'm sure you're tired of hearing "why doesn't it sort?" questions, and I
thank Bob for his FAQ response to many, many, many users. I'm glad I
pulled down the archives :-)
The summary: I want to know how to make it sort like I want by default.
I have a somewhat different situation, though, and so I brave being
branded as a dullard... From my perusal of the ChangeLog I do not see
that this sort "stuff" was implemented between 4.0 and 4.1, and yet our
badly-installed-and-really-should-be-replaced copy of ls sorts as I would
expect. To wit:
bash-2.05a$ /appmnt/prod/IT/gnu/SunOS_5.8/gnu_13/bin/ls --version
ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0
bash-2.05a$
bash-2.05a$ ls --version
ls (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
(with the copyright notice clipped for brevity; forgive me).
Interestingly enough, the two versions of ls display columns differently
for the same directory; it seems that 4.0 uses the whole width of the
screen while 4.1 thinks that it can't. To wit:
bash-2.05a$ /appmnt/prod/IT/gnu/SunOS_5.8/gnu_13/bin/ls
00-Done card--help ctags-h diff3--help
00-GotIt card--version ctags-v diff3--version
00-WHAT card-h cvs--help diff3-h
Esetroot--help card-v cvs--version diff3-v
Esetroot--version cc--help cvs-h dirname--help
...
bash-2.05a$ ls
00-Done composeglyphs--version dirname--version
00-GotIt composeglyphs-h dirname-h
00-WHAT composeglyphs-v dirname-v
addftinfo--help ctags--help echo--help
addftinfo--version ctags--version echo--version
As you can see, the 4.0 version sorts caps first but also uses a fourth
column -- and the columns are even shifted right by one compared to the
only three that 4.1 spits out.
The tricky thing is that I don't have $LAND or $LC_ALL set at all:
bash-2.05a$
bash-2.05a$ echo $LANG
bash-2.05a$ echo $LC_ALL
bash-2.05a$
So yet again I don't understand why sorting should be different.
Was there, in fact, a change in sort smarts between 4.0 and 4.1 that I
couldn't detect, or did the person who built the 4.0 stuff perhaps
perform some magic to set a default sort style so that the env variables
aren't needed for folks who want the "old" behavior? If the latter, is
it common magic that you can impart to the novice :-) or was it code
hacking?
I've just subscribed to the list, so I expect that I'll see any
followups, but adding a cc: for me might be safest since I haven't yet
seen any posts.
TIA & HAND
:-D
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