[ - original poster ] On Thu, 31 May 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
This is most likely not a bug in sort, but a misunderstanding on your part as to how locales affect sort. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
Proposal: add a --verbose option to sort, which would explain field splitting and comparison. I know I'd find this useful from time-to-time, even though I (mostly) remember to use -k2,2 !
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