Re: [Nolug] question about sort(1)

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 12:14, scotth@scottharney.com wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> funny. when I make a copy of your initial file and run
> sort, I get the second list.

Which OS? I'm on Debian sid.

$ sort --version
sort (coreutils) 5.0.91

$ uname -a
Linux haggis 2.6.3 #2 Sun Feb 29 00:58:15 CST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

$ set |grep LC_

$ cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1

> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got this file:
> >
> > $ cat download/file.lst
> > file 3,387,062 02-21 16:56 ./24547010.pdf
> > file 14,236 08-25 04:55 ./Analysis of Asteroid Split.pdf
> > file 651,283 07-26 14:57 ./Browser282b2.tar.gz
> > file 30,227 07-26 17:07 ./EasyTables0.8.4-9.tar.bz2
> > file 195,294 01-18 22:09 ./FAQ_Rev05_ENG.pdf
> > file 50 10-15 19:05 ./GovForum2_2003.ram
> > file 5,454 03-01 12:03 ./HP-LaserJet_1100-hpijs.ppd.gz
> > file 203,680 05-08 15:56 ./LinuxCompilersCompatibility702.pdf
> > file 493 01-20 18:45 ./MD5SUMS
> >
> > Now when I sort it, it strips away the spaces when doing
> > the compares:
> >
> > $ sort download/file.lst
> > file 14,236 08-25 04:55 ./Analysis of Asteroid Split.pdf
> > file 195,294 01-18 22:09 ./FAQ_Rev05_ENG.pdf
> > file 203,680 05-08 15:56 ./LinuxCompilersCompatibility702.pdf
> > file 30,227 07-26 17:07 ./EasyTables0.8.4-9.tar.bz2
> > file 3,387,062 02-21 16:56 ./24547010.pdf
> > file 493 01-20 18:45 ./MD5SUMS
> > file 50 10-15 19:05 ./GovForum2_2003.ram
> > file 5,454 03-01 12:03 ./HP-LaserJet_1100-hpijs.ppd.gz
> > file 651,283 07-26 14:57 ./Browser282b2.tar.gz
> >
> > Obviously, that's wrong. It should be:
> >
> > file 50 10-15 19:05 ./GovForum2_2003.ram
> > file 493 01-20 18:45 ./MD5SUMS
> > file 5,454 03-01 12:03 ./HP-LaserJet_1100-hpijs.ppd.gz
> > file 14,236 08-25 04:55 ./Analysis of Asteroid Split.pdf
> > file 30,227 07-26 17:07 ./EasyTables0.8.4-9.tar.bz2
> > file 195,294 01-18 22:09 ./FAQ_Rev05_ENG.pdf
> > file 203,680 05-08 15:56 ./LinuxCompilersCompatibility702.pdf
> > file 651,283 07-26 14:57 ./Browser282b2.tar.gz
> > file 3,387,062 02-21 16:56 ./24547010.pdf
> >
> > How do I tell sort to do a plain old, dumb ASCII sort?

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