Subject: My previous message

From: Leslie Satenstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:23:47 -0500

I was given a solution which was to set LC_ALL=C

With that statement, the sort works just fine. 

I apologize for the false error report.

LC_ALL=C sort -t '|' -k1,1 -o x.sorted x.raw

Leslie Satenstein