GNU bug report logs - #9561
Sort behaves differently

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: vijay krishna <krishna.vijay4444 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 9562

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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