On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 04:55:28PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > Anyone care to explain what exactly means the -g option of sort? The > fine manual only says "general numerical", but I doubt that is true, > because -g (and all other options I have tried, -n, -M, -h, -V) will > all put Roman numeral 9 in between 4 and 5. See here: ... hey, wait, it's not April yet!