Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) [030126 11:22]:
> > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote:
> > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37,
> > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole
> > > > line of text, where " " collates before "0", etc. I've looked in the
> > > > man page, but see nothing.
man sort
The full documentation for sort is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and sort programs are properly
installed at your site, the command
info sort
Unless otherwise specified, all comparisons use the character
collating sequence specified by the `LC_COLLATE' locale.
Therefore your current locale directly controls sort ordering. This
is a number one source of confusion for sort and ls and appears in the
GNU coreutils faq.
http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/
> works for me:
Me too.
> doozer:/tmp% locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Veneet poses a good point. What is your locale?
Try setting your locale to posix and see if that works for you.
LC_ALL=POSIX sort < infile > outfile
Bob
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