On 12/01/2010 06:44 AM, Kielbasiewicz, Peter wrote: > Hello, > there seems to be a bug in Ubuntu's 10.10 sort command. > I suspect that it defaults to the -f option now which I think is wrong.
Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug in sort, but a problem of your current choice of locale. It is also a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 > e.g. > { echo a > echo j > echo A > echo i > echo AA > echo B > } | sort Running with the recently introduced 'sort --debug' option sheds some light on your situation: $ printf 'a\nj\nA\ni\nAA\nB\n' | src/sort --debug src/sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules a _ A _ AA __ B _ i _ j _ ebl...@office (0 0) ~/coreutils $ printf 'a\nj\nA\ni\nAA\nB\n' | LC_ALL=C src/sort --debug src/sort: using simple byte comparison A _ AA __ B _ a _ i _ j _ -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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