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Is this a bug or a feature? (origin use case was "lsmod | sort" where now the head line of lsmod isn't= any longer the first line of the output. =2D- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E From unknown Fri Jun 13 10:14:29 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#35587: sort order wrt lower/upper case Resent-From: Assaf Gordon Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 19:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35587 X-GNU-PR-Package: coreutils X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Toralf =?UTF-8?Q?F=C3=B6rster?= , 35587@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 35587-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35587.15570843732430 (code B ref 35587); Sun, 05 May 2019 19:27:01 +0000 Received: (at 35587) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 May 2019 19:26:13 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54892 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hNMm5-0000d3-4D for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 15:26:13 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-f178.google.com ([209.85.214.178]:34322) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hNMm2-0000ck-Rk; Sun, 05 May 2019 15:26:11 -0400 Received: by mail-pl1-f178.google.com with SMTP id ck18so5248768plb.1; Sun, 05 May 2019 12:26:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HRoIcCNLUiv7QGTbUPmDfCil1zDCFROIrGIcmqzHD/g=; b=GBEExXblis/JsUa1kZGwM82iMnSe33U0p3OZnGOfyYI7hfWLSK87tMRfEbmiTvLnzG kW7AoMpNCny5owPOodxMAT99ikIpG8zgn+bUDxq88MXLF8Kjp5gJykVilDumMrr+mn3f 4CIn5rMjoK9x8i0mlEc69dampqG+cPNQxeTe2QtIZgTCEPFDMTdFXG3eJ7m5/19nUybF zCtiZOSVnAohc8vYehnB3zNe4F7sXCevhHWKcmmUnMVao2oJdvVT2qffaMco5qjmgBw/ bouzD1hDCQ3AyFhh4vfyh6X+09ZNPhuRaDbBHwqld8AMEuHVNibpS0ZQUrVCSzzE5rXp dZTA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HRoIcCNLUiv7QGTbUPmDfCil1zDCFROIrGIcmqzHD/g=; b=i9hgkxOVJpKGjyH93trAKhHSK/Z4BTR6ywidRW4ohpUIeJBKRknKirgRfzB77KHt83 LL2cyG8a4bXbeOLB0NbG0hXOcrnfnY2IOjWUzoLIJRN9LgDKbyHfJBceAMhpAKdiBgp5 JPowHxmXbcXmx3gdGLlJeQAAzNcoXebGI93kNdJlgZOIjs6tUdb7wZOzq/OzQ/fqHMYr AzW80DFMp9aXD4bpNldpghlKN0GmRf5XafwLE0bgvRPNvt2zCd0X64R6XC1XeeU6mC3t +Eu1YKpsSza90Ho5POiUh2jLuSuSjfpl2cptj5jrPQ1ier5NEZ//Zpsug46Zn+7UrKpq 285w== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWduRSu/cNO/TnWvuU2zgEiCtfkGVwiz542+fRydL1EBmnxnJN8 lWCnd7Ia9ezt3JMgO+dBZAUx0uUp X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqw0KA3sfxMq/AQRQEWes8J953wyRmlcuSzffKyDrJGQ/Whwr21vhaxHdVohQqQgtUuOmuKh3g== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:1621:: with SMTP id g30mr26911511plg.168.1557084364663; Sun, 05 May 2019 12:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomato.housegordon.com (moose.housegordon.com. [184.68.105.38]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id o5sm20337725pfa.135.2019.05.05.12.26.03 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 05 May 2019 12:26:03 -0700 (PDT) References: From: Assaf Gordon Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 13:26:02 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 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: -1.0 (-) tags 35587 notabug close 35587 stop Hello, On 2019-05-05 1:01 p.m., Toralf Förster wrote: > I'd expect "B" being the first line here: > > echo a B c d | xargs -n 1 | sort > > using sys-apps/coreutils-8.30 at a stable hardened Gentoo Linux, but it is "a". Is this a bug or a feature? This is just a matter of your locale (e.g. "de_DE.UTF8" ?) that sorts letters without regard to case. If you force C locale you'll get "B" first: $ echo a B c d | xargs -n 1 | LC_ALL=C sort B a c d Adding "--debug" will show a warning and help diagnose such issues in the future: $ sort --debug sort: using ‘ca_EN.utf8’ sorting rules ... ... As such, I'm closing this as not-a-bug, but discussion can continue by replying to this thread. -assaf