Re: [Nolug] question about sort(1)

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> 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

same thing for me.

make a copy of a file and run the sort from
the current dir. What happens ?

>
> $ 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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