From unknown Sat Jun 21 03:27:45 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#18298 <18298@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#18298 <18298@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: Sort behavior Reply-To: bug#18298 <18298@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:27:45 +0000 retitle 18298 Sort behavior reassign 18298 coreutils submitter 18298 mehdi.rakhshani@verizon.net severity 18298 normal tag 18298 notabug thanks From mehdi.rakhshani@verizon.net Tue Aug 19 07:41:45 2014 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Aug 2014 15:48:10 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55345) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XJikC-0006gs-J8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJijx-0002dC-E8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:27 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:55406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJijx-0002d8-BE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:17 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57003) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJijp-0003Qw-Q7 for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJiji-0002ar-5z for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:09 -0400 Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.9]:14806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJijh-0002aY-Vg for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:02 -0400 Received: from vms170027pub.verizon.net ([unknown] [192.168.1.60]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTP id <0NAK003NJ0LL9780@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:41:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 142.75.255.200 ([142.75.255.200]) by vms170027 (Verizon Webmail) with HTTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:41:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:41:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Sent: 3 hours, 2 minutes, 26 seconds ago From: mehdi.rakhshani@verizon.net To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Message-id: <1342894.321964.1408452105908.JavaMail.root@vms170027> Subject: Sort behavior MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Verizon Webmail X-Originating-IP: [142.75.255.200] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit [3. text/html]

Sort on LINUX is behaving in such a way that does not make common sense.

 

bfile:

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING2-------------

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------0

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------1

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING3-------------

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING--------------

 

Sort bfile (works as expected)

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING--------------

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------0

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING-------------1

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING2-------------

0efefi008vj00n19000088gu ATTRSTRING3-------------

 

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 –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

 

What am I missing?
 
Thanks,
Mehdi

From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Aug 19 11:57:33 2014 Received: (at 18298) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Aug 2014 15:57:33 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47541 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XJlmv-00032T-5S for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:57:33 -0400 Received: from mail5.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.176]:48002) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XJlms-00032B-FG; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:57:31 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApYBAJtz81NtTWsA/2dsb2JhbAANTINgV4J8yXCHVgGBIYR7AQEEIw8BRhALDQsCAgUhAgIPAkYTAQUCAQEFiCUDFgirQXiUYReBLItzgi0HFoJjgVMFhhGeBJEOawGCTgEBAQ Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.41]) ([109.77.107.0]) by mail3.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 19 Aug 2014 16:57:13 +0100 Message-ID: <53F373D9.20200@draigBrady.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:57:13 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?UMOhZHJhaWcgQnJhZHk=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mehdi.rakhshani@verizon.net Subject: Re: bug#18298: Sort behavior References: <1342894.321964.1408452105908.JavaMail.root@vms170027> In-Reply-To: <1342894.321964.1408452105908.JavaMail.root@vms170027> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 18298 Cc: 18298@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) tag 18298 notabug close 18298 stop On 08/19/2014 01:41 PM, mehdi.rakhshani@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. 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