Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Steve Juranich
On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole line of text, where collates before 0, etc. I've looked in the man page, but see nothing. I guess I'm not quite clear on what you want, but as I see it

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a text file, and part of it is a column of numbers. When I run sort(1) v4.5.2, it is trying to be clever, sorting on the column of numbers. I have a sneaking suspicion that export LC_COLLATE=C will cure your problem -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

RE: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Charlie Reiman
-Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:03 AM To: Debian-User Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1) On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, Ron

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 14:12, Bob Proulx wrote: Vineet Kumar wrote: * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 11:22]: On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want, though, is a straight, dumb