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Sort behavior

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: mehdi.rakhshani <at> verizon.net

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: mehdi.rakhshani <at> verizon.net
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Sort behavior
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:41:45 -0500 (CDT)

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Information forwarded to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org:
bug#18298; Package coreutils. (Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:58:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: mehdi.rakhshani <at> verizon.net
Cc: 18298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18298: Sort behavior
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:57:13 +0100

tag 18298 notabug
close 18298
stop

On 08/19/2014 01:41 PM, mehdi.rakhshani <at> verizon.net wrote:
>    [3. text/html]
> 
>    Sort on LINUX is behaving in such a way that does not make common
>    sense.
> 
> 
>    Afile:
> 
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING2------------- C
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------0 B
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------1 A
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING3------------- D
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------- E
> 
> 
>    Sort afile (does not work, all variations specifying aEUR"key or any
>    other option does not work either)
> 
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------0 B
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------1 A
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING2------------- C
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING3------------- D
>    0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------- E

Your locale is ignoring the punctuation chars ('-' and ' ' in your case).
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
To avoid that:

  LC_ALL=C sort afile

thanks,
Pádraig.
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:58:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 18298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and mehdi.rakhshani <at> verizon.net Request was from Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:58:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Information forwarded to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org:
bug#18298; Package coreutils. (Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:09:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #15 received at 18298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 mehdi.rakhshani <at> verizon.net
Cc: 18298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18298: Sort behavior
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:07:59 -0600

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On 08/19/2014 09:57 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> tag 18298 notabug
> close 18298
> stop
> 

> 
> Your locale is ignoring the punctuation chars ('-' and ' ' in your case).

To further see this in action, use 'sort --debug'.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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