Re: [Nolug] question about sort(1)

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 12:43, scotth@scottharney.com wrote:
> 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 ?

Same thing.

$ cp download/file.lst .
`download/file.lst' -> `./file.lst'

$ sort 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

> >
> > $ 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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