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Re: Sort utility


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: Sort utility
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:43:12 -0700

> Upon performing the word count sort utilities on one of our
> test files, we have found that the utilities ignore any punctuation
> marks (.,():"). We are running UNIX on Linux Mandrake 8.1. Is this
> normal, or is there an acutal bug?

Sort should respect punctuation as long as you are not sorting in
dictionary order using the -d option.  But this sounds more like a
common LANG locale problem.  Check out following pointer and see if
this might also be what you are seeing.

  
http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/#Sort%20does%20not%20sorting%20in%20normal%20order!

Hope that helps
Bob



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