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sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty

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From: Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:34:42 +0200

Dear Staff,

I had an input for sort, that was sorted wrong.

The input is:

D_1
D_3
D15

The output is:

D_1
D15
D_3


coreutils version (from man page):
GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty

System:
Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 19 00:37:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux


I have also tried vi's sort, that sorted it like:
D15
D_1
D_3


Yours sincerely,

Zoltan Krajcsovics

Message #8 received at 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:20:44 -0600

On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
> Dear Staff,
>
> I had an input for sort, that was sorted wrong.
>
> The input is:
>
> D_1
> D_3
> D15
>
> The output is:
>
> D_1
> D15
> D_3

Not a bug in sort.  Your locale settings are at fault, per this FAQ:

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Message #11 received at 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:24:32 -0600

On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
> coreutils version (from man page):
> GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty

That seems like a weird version - normally, the only people that should 
be running a -dirty version are those actually developing from 
coreutils.git; but since we have long since moved past 6.9, I'm assuming 
you got your coreutils pre-built as part of a distro.  Rather than 
relying on a possibly broken man page, what does 'sort --version' state? 
 At any rate, you may want to report the broken man page to your 
distro, to get them to fix it to report a saner string.

Meanwhile, the latest stable coreutils is 8.5, which fixes several real 
bugs in sort; or, if you use the current coreutils.git sources, you can 
use the new 'sort --debug' option which would give you some verbose 
hints about how your locale is affecting things.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Message #14 received at 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:00:38 +0200

On 2010-09-08 18:24 +0200, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
>> coreutils version (from man page):
>> GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
>
> That seems like a weird version - normally, the only people that
> should be running a -dirty version are those actually developing from
> coreutils.git; but since we have long since moved past 6.9, I'm
> assuming you got your coreutils pre-built as part of a distro.  Rather
> than relying on a possibly broken man page, what does 'sort --version'
> state? At any rate, you may want to report the broken man page to your
> distro, to get them to fix it to report a saner string.

He's running coreutils 6.10, I reported the weird version in the
manpages back in January 2008¹.  Probably it's not important enough for
distros to fix this.

Sven


¹ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00219.html

Message #17 received at 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:53:50 +0200

2010/9/8 Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>:
> On 2010-09-08 18:24 +0200, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
>>> coreutils version (from man page):
>>> GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
>>
>> That seems like a weird version - normally, the only people that
>> should be running a -dirty version are those actually developing from
>> coreutils.git; but since we have long since moved past 6.9, I'm
>> assuming you got your coreutils pre-built as part of a distro.  Rather
>> than relying on a possibly broken man page, what does 'sort --version'
>> state? At any rate, you may want to report the broken man page to your
>> distro, to get them to fix it to report a saner string.
>
> He's running coreutils 6.10, I reported the weird version in the
> manpages back in January 2008š.  Probably it's not important enough for
> distros to fix this.
>
> Sven
>
>
> š http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00219.html
>

That is right.

Message #20 received at 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 7000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:31:20 +0200

Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> írta (2010. szeptember 8. 18:20):
> On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
>>
>> Dear Staff,
>>
>> I had an input for sort, that was sorted wrong.
>>
>> The input is:
>>
>> D_1
>> D_3
>> D15
>>
>> The output is:
>>
>> D_1
>> D15
>> D_3
>
> Not a bug in sort.  Your locale settings are at fault, per this FAQ:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021


With the supposed changes it works for me, too. I had `hu_HU' sorting rules.

Could be useful to anyone, who cannot change locales for some reason:
I could use a workaround changing space, '_', etc to letters, like 'a'.


Sorry for bothering with known problem, and thank You for the solution!

Zoltan Krajcsovics

Message #27 received at 7000-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Zoltán Krajcsovics <zulthank <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7000-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 11:32:55 -0600

Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
> Eric Blake írta (2010. szeptember 8. 18:20):
> > On 09/08/2010 07:34 AM, Zoltán Krajcsovics wrote:
> >> I had an input for sort, that was sorted wrong.
> >>
> >> The input is:
> >>
> >> D_1
> >> D_3
> >> D15
> >>
> >> The output is:
> >>
> >> D_1
> >> D15
> >> D_3
> >
> > Not a bug in sort.  Your locale settings are at fault, per this FAQ:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
> 
> 
> With the supposed changes it works for me, too. I had `hu_HU' sorting rules.
> 
> Could be useful to anyone, who cannot change locales for some reason:
> I could use a workaround changing space, '_', etc to letters, like 'a'.
> 
> Sorry for bothering with known problem, and thank You for the solution!

This never got closed in the bug tracker.  Happy to see it was
resolved.  Closing it now.

Bob

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