Subject: Is this expected behavior?

From: Ajesh Shaj <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:01:38 +0530

Hi,

    I got a strange ordering when I applied the linux sort command. Please see below for the details:

[ajesh@gwta3004 tmp]$ cat a
.a
ba
.b
bb
.c
bc
[ajesh@gwta3004 tmp]$ sort a
.a
.b
ba
bb
bc
.c

NOTE: .a and .b appears before ba and bb, where as .c appears after bc.

In general

if the file has strings of the type .<x> and <y><x>,

then for all x <= y, .x appear before yx and
          for all x>y, .x appear after yx

Is this expected behavior?

Regards
Ajesh

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