It looks to me like you probably just have locate settings that you don't like:-
~$ sort -t " " -k 1 < Desktop/T 20th Century Fox Animation /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000923a5a 20th Century Fox /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000136722 20th Century Fox Television /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000d38838 Acer Computer Australia /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000876087 Acer /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000021b67f Acergy /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000f082b3 Acer India /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000875b5c Acerinox /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000ddcbc9 Acer Laboratories Incorporated /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000c9f469 ~$ LC_ALL=C sort -t " " -k 1 < Desktop/T 20th Century Fox /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000136722 20th Century Fox Animation /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000923a5a 20th Century Fox Television /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000d38838 Acer /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000021b67f Acer Computer Australia /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000876087 Acer India /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000875b5c Acer Laboratories Incorporated /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000c9f469 Acergy /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000f082b3 Acerinox /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000ddcbc9 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
