On Fri, 5 May 2000, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Jeff Foster wrote:
> >
> > I had a similar experience lately; I got surprised because sort and strcmp
> > did not agree on the order of things. In my case, my locale was set to
> > en_US by gnome (I think). Setting LC_ALL=C (instead of en_US) and then
> > doing sort makes sort use strcmp to pick the sorting order, which may
> > solve your problem.
>
> Does that doanything for the 'sort -n' bugs?
I don't know. The sort info page (run the command ``info sort'') contains
a fairly long description of the -n option. It looks like LC_NUMERIC can
affect the sorting of numbers.
Jeff
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