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Sort behaves differently

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From: vijay krishna <krishna.vijay4444 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Sort behaves differently
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:46:49 -0700

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Hello Team,

  May I please know the reason for the following behaviour of the sort
command...

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0 $ sort bug1_file1
b103i/pass.txt
b103/pass.txt
0 $ sort bug1_file2
b103/done.txt
b103i/done.txt
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  The output is same with options  '-s', '-g', '-n', '-d' (used one at a
time) also.



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0 $ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.


Regards,
Krishna

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: vijay krishna <krishna.vijay4444 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9561-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9561: Sort behaves differently
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:36:52 -0700

"sort --help" explains your problem, I expect:

  *** WARNING ***
  The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.
  Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
  native byte values.

Hmm, perhaps we should change the output of "sort --help"?
We could change this:

  Report sort bugs to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org

to this:

  Please use the --debug option when reporting bugs.
  Report sort bugs to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org

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From: vijay krishna <krishna.vijay4444 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9561-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9561: Sort behaves differently
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:17:04 +0530

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Hello Paul,

    Just thought of informing you.
I could not find  '--debug' option in the sort help.
Sort could not even recognize the option.

Currently I am using the following version of sort.
Kindly inform if a latest version is available.

0 $ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.5
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
0 $ sort --debug
sort: unrecognized option '--debug'
Try `sort --help' for more information.

---
Regards,
Krishna

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> "sort --help" explains your problem, I expect:
>
>  *** WARNING ***
>  The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.
>  Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
>  native byte values.
>
> Hmm, perhaps we should change the output of "sort --help"?
> We could change this:
>
>  Report sort bugs to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
>
> to this:
>
>  Please use the --debug option when reporting bugs.
>  Report sort bugs to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: vijay krishna <krishna.vijay4444 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9561-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9561: Sort behaves differently
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:59:32 -0700

On 09/20/11 19:47, vijay krishna wrote:
> I could not find  '--debug' option in the sort help.
> Sort could not even recognize the option.

I suggest trying the latest version, 8.13:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.13.tar.gz

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