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Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)



* 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.


> Since " " collates before "1", I think it should sort to:
>        1,019  rip.ama.sh
>    1,011,879  rudolph's finale,instrumental.mp3
>    1,016,476  track 10.mp3
>    1,019,494  track_22.mp3
>    1,041,972  belle (reprise).mp3
>    1,055,346  track 10.mp3
>    1,061,527  Two-Part_Invention_No._10_in_G_Major,_BWV_781.mp3
>    1,061,616  track 07.mp3
>    1,067,049  monkey chase.mp3
>    1,068,303  track 24.mp3
>   10,040,583  Violin_Concerto_in_D_major_Op._35.mp3
>   10,056,845  Symphony_5_Allegro_con_brio.mp3
>   10,101,975  MARS,_The_Bringer_of_War.mp3
>   10,150,230  track_15.mp3
>   10,191,633  Moonlight_Sonata_Presto_agitato.mp3
>   10,303,836  Memory_Motel.mp3
>   10,331,203  Track_9.mp3
>   10,351,528  The_Long_Road_Back.mp3
>   10,394,167  Don_Giovanni_K_527_-_a_cenar_teco_minvitasti.mp3
>   10,485,888  notes - prima donna.mp3
>   10,524,581  Flower_waltz_from_The_Nutcracker.mp3

works for me:

doozer:/tmp% cat txt
  10,040,583  Violin_Concerto_in_D_major_Op._35.mp3
  10,056,845  Symphony_5_Allegro_con_brio.mp3
  10,101,975  MARS,_The_Bringer_of_War.mp3
   1,011,879  rudolph's finale,instrumental.mp3
  10,150,230  track_15.mp3
   1,016,476  track 10.mp3
  10,191,633  Moonlight_Sonata_Presto_agitato.mp3
   1,019,494  track_22.mp3
       1,019  rip.ama.sh
   1,024,000  track 32.mp3
  10,303,836  Memory_Motel.mp3
  10,331,203  Track_9.mp3
  10,351,528  The_Long_Road_Back.mp3
  10,394,167  Don_Giovanni_K_527_-_a_cenar_teco_minvitasti.mp3
   1,041,972  belle (reprise).mp3
  10,485,888  notes - prima donna.mp3
  10,524,581  Flower_waltz_from_The_Nutcracker.mp3
   1,055,346  track 10.mp3
   1,061,527  Two-Part_Invention_No._10_in_G_Major,_BWV_781.mp3
   1,061,616  track 07.mp3
   1,067,049  monkey chase.mp3
   1,068,303  track 24.mp3
doozer:/tmp% sort txt
       1,019  rip.ama.sh
   1,011,879  rudolph's finale,instrumental.mp3
   1,016,476  track 10.mp3
   1,019,494  track_22.mp3
   1,024,000  track 32.mp3
   1,041,972  belle (reprise).mp3
   1,055,346  track 10.mp3
   1,061,527  Two-Part_Invention_No._10_in_G_Major,_BWV_781.mp3
   1,061,616  track 07.mp3
   1,067,049  monkey chase.mp3
   1,068,303  track 24.mp3
  10,040,583  Violin_Concerto_in_D_major_Op._35.mp3
  10,056,845  Symphony_5_Allegro_con_brio.mp3
  10,101,975  MARS,_The_Bringer_of_War.mp3
  10,150,230  track_15.mp3
  10,191,633  Moonlight_Sonata_Presto_agitato.mp3
  10,303,836  Memory_Motel.mp3
  10,331,203  Track_9.mp3
  10,351,528  The_Long_Road_Back.mp3
  10,394,167  Don_Giovanni_K_527_-_a_cenar_teco_minvitasti.mp3
  10,485,888  notes - prima donna.mp3
  10,524,581  Flower_waltz_from_The_Nutcracker.mp3
doozer:/tmp% locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
doozer:/tmp% type sort
sort is /usr/bin/sort
doozer:/tmp% sort --version
sort (coreutils) 4.5.2
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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