John J. Herda wrote: > I have a problem with the "sort" utility. I want a > simple ASCII sort but I cannot seem to get it. It is > most frustrating.
All of your examples worked correctly for me. The problem is most likely something specific to your user environment. > I have tried "set LC_ALL=C" and several others also but it seemed to > have no effect. What can I do? Please, help me. Sorting is > useless. I see by your examples that you are a csh user. I suggest upgrading to a more modern shell that is POSIX compliant. I suggest bash but any POSIX compliant shell would be an improvement. Please consider upgrading to bash. I strongly recommend this. In csh if you are using 'set' that will NOT export the variable. In csh you would need to use 'setenv'. What does locale say? locale Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
