Re: Sort command problem

2000-05-06 Thread Jean Francois Ortolo
Thank you very much for Mr. Jieff. Setting LC_ALL=C appears to solve the problem for me. Many thanks. Jean François -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Sort command problem

2000-05-05 Thread Jean Francois Ortolo
Hi I recently got astonished while using the sort program. After having been running this command: sort -u -o dictio.txt dictionnaire.final I realized neither of these 3 characters was taken into account: :' . As for : it appears to be used as a field separator, even when

Re: Sort command problem

2000-05-05 Thread Jeff Foster
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jean Francois Ortolo wrote: I recently got astonished while using the sort program. 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

Re: Sort command problem

2000-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
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. Sort seems to be broken -- To unsubscribe: mail -s