Package: coreutils;
Reported by: Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein <at> yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:48:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 17016
Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein <at> yahoo.com> To: 17017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#17017: Fw: sort program question my error Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:46:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Disregard my previous posting In my doc, I did not apply export as ... #!/bin/bash export LC_ALL=C Without the export then sort -f and -k1d is required (see below) Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM. ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein <at> yahoo.com> >To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org> >Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:52 AM >Subject: sort program question -- bug with program, or documentation or my misunderstanding > > > >Hi >My first posting. > > >I believe there is an omission in man pages for the sort in the Description area section. One cannot successfully use -d or without including -f on the line. Refer to man sort under Description > > -d, --dictionary-order > consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters > > > > >I have the following lines in a file (see below as justification) > > >I want a file sorted as straight ascii sort. I eventually developed the two alternate command lines shown below, for two different purposes. > > >The undocumented bug is the requirement for the -f to be specified in order to have the sort work in the first of the two ASCII examples shown below, >otherwise the leading blank is ignored. > >The first sort did not work for me unless the -f is specified. Nowhere in the man page does it stipulate that for -d option the -f must be specified. >That is the bug. > >Did I not understand man sort or info sort (linux fedora 20) ? > >Here are the two command lines and some sample lines as justification for my posting. I wish to sort a file shown below within the === by the first column >The following is the demo script > > >#!/bin/bash >LC_ALL=C ># to sort in ascii sequence where line ABCabc comes before abc use the following >sort -f -k1d -t '|' x -o ABCabc ># output will have lines with leading ABC text occurring before abc as per ascii table. ># The sort will not work if the -f is omitted. > ># The undocumented requirement is the need to specify the -f ># ># to sort folding the in folded ascii sequence, where lines with sequence ABCbac sorts as AaBbCc ... use the following ># This part of the man pages is correct. Except we may specify the folding option in two ways > >sort -t '|' -k1f x -o AaBbCc >or the line with sort -f -t '|' -k1 x -o AaBbCc > > >Try the first command or varients without the -f to sort in column 1 ascending sequence > > > >Here is a text file, between the === to paste into VI Save it as x . and try to get the sort against the lines > >NB, the leading blank for line 1 is to force the line to be first in the output > > > >======== > > Host=fedora20.fedora20 | | scan from /home/leslie/Development/scandir >crc32.h |20140314 1736|bb96da74aa636110b822d116afbe36d82c1c0861|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >md5.h |20140314 1736|544728de8b8dc476109922cf5601a7cd6a103916|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >ABCbac |20140314 1901|6626094e11fee60bbe73529bd440a43961c022ce|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >scandir32.c |20140314 1738|1526c725bf00d8268b5319b125cebd2fbb001542|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >date1 |20140314 1901|97294e445cb75e611805024d5461bd07807e9157|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >sha1.o |20140314 1736|1ba673cd46bb246f7f380dc862f93b4737c1305c|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >dirdepth.c |20140314 1736|8779adf41bce65b45f597ba3731db55e81aa718a|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >md5Good.tar |20140314 1736|87ca9e022705250fe2635f87801bbf0fd2df0a0f|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >crc32.c |20140314 1736|cb8e353eedecba7d1c0fa2bdd871a508301b10d3|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >scandir32 |20140314 1738|ddc187abd0a991183f0d148ed1f069169c5b67ab|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >md5.c |20140314 1736|291145c0b852ec5cff52b361f2be75886f116bee|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >md5 |20140314 1736|a766f710c7f007fa930c808f1a25464f6c7fb1ae|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >scandir |20140314 1738|525b14d0c2ed42d7c6df168ad9606573df3fa97c|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >dirent.h |20140314 1736|281be8444edc7fdaf561cab6f86e80911f425041|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >test.sh |20140314 1736|7ebc56b604211a222c5a3fa6caf811207134fb3f|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >makefile |20140314 1736|8c13260814f42acb544cfd3eda64daf7a26241f3|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >sort.how |20140314 1859|08aff8bec844bbe8684f24e9e0e5635d73a0f364|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >scandirmd5 |20140314 1738|525b14d0c2ed42d7c6df168ad9606573df3fa97c|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >crc32.o |20140314 1736|0f3c8739e6ebc6b5d2c553687886fe47df1aa39c|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >DATE2 |20140314 1736|c31bd337d70c8d39ada367a889d623e19cd3c995|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >date2 |20140314 1901|97294e445cb75e611805024d5461bd07807e9157|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >sha1.h |20140314 1736|017eefa93cc9fe477881fa0986465b0a125b5aa5|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >scandirsha1.c |20140314 1738|a4ea776b95cb87047188353527128262d1059990|/home/leslie/Development/scandir >blacklist.txt |20140314 1736|28ec0b1ef6be98a520366ea63938e0a436b1db78|/home/leslie/Development/scandir/SOX/var >====== > > >Trying different variations of the sort with the above file leads to some results that do not appear to me to be correct. >I have specified locale, and with some variants, locale appears to be ignored. The above file is as ASCII text, not utf8 > > >Regards > > Leslie > >Mr. Leslie Satenstein > > > >
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