tag 12907 + moreinfo thanks Coffey, Terrence (Terrence) **CTR** wrote: > I think I might have located a bug. I'm using Redhat 6.3.
What locale are you using? You can print out your locale settings with the locale command. $ locale Very often the locale is set to a "human" locale where case is folded and punctuation is ignored in "dictionary" style. This ordering is a libc system library definition. > I'm try to get a listing of dot file sorted by date and all other > files sorted by date. I'd like all the dot file to appears before > all other files. I personally would do this with two different commands. First list the dot files using shell file glob matching only dot files. Second list non-dot files. I would also use the --time-style=long-iso format so that the dates are printed consistently. $ ls -Ald /tmp/.[!.]* ; ls -Ald /tmp/* But I realize that sets different columns for the two different commands. > Initially I was testing on 6.2 and noticed that the .(dot) files > were not passed to sort. However this issue is fixed in 6.3. I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't recall any bug in that area. And if it is there then bringing up a fixed bug muddies the water. > However it does not appear to be able to sort dot files. The > filename is key 11 In your example the filename is key 10 not 11. 0 -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Nov 9 15:06 yum.log 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 That might be the most of your problem. > If you need some additional data, just let me know. Try this: $ ls -Asl --time-style=long-iso / | env LC_ALL=C sort -k9,9 -k7,8 Then please report back in if your problem is resolved. Please keep the bug log in the recipient list. See also the FAQ entry: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Bob
